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The Education of Shannon Quebec ( please watch this video)

Jan 30th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
This ran in 2004... CBC The Fifth Estate about Shannon Quebec..your comments invited below. We have contacted the Fifth Estate, and they will not even return our email. In the very begining Marketplace was all over our story in Preston... then suddenly they vanished.. I have been told, this story will not ... Full Story

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DND denies blame for cancer in Shannon, Que. Government answers lawsuit over contaminated water near base

Jan 30th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
CBC News Montreal.... your comments invited below Last Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010 Marie-Paule Spieser is one of 600 residents of Shannon, Que., who have signed a class-action lawsuit over water tainted with trichloroethylene, or TCE. (CBC) The federal government denies responsibility for hundreds of cancer cases at the heart of a ... Full Story

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Taking money from Hespeler, and giving it too “Galt”… What a novel idea.. they wouldn’t do that in an election year, would they?

Jan 30th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, Community
This was posted under comments by Bev Mcdowell, but I felt it needed more exposure.. your comments invited below.. Posted on city web site under Council Meeting - Jan 28/10 Agenda Item #3 Recommendation: That the budget task force recommends that if the city is successful with our FEDDEV application that a capital project ... Full Story

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Sick and tired of contamination, pair sue Northstar

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
This ran in the KW Record.. comments invited below March 2008 Jeff Outhit RECORD STAFF   A couple who blame their poor health on industrial contamination have filed a $213-million lawsuit against Northstar Aerospace and two other firms. Denis and Debbie Vitez allege contamination of their home on Grand Valley Drive led to chronic breathing problems, ... Full Story

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Common cleaning chemical.. TCE… linked to male infertility: study

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
Last Updated: Friday, February 28, 2003 | 3:06 PM ET ( this is what they knew in 2003) CBC News A chemical used widely in industry and present in ground water supplies in some areas has been found in the semen of infertile men. A study by Canadian and American researchers found trichloroethylene (TCE) ... Full Story

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Cleanup falls behind Companies will share in estimated $20M cost to remove contaminants

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
This ran in the KW Record.... comments invited below November 22, 2007 JEFF OUTHIT RECORD STAFF..CAMBRIDGE  The cleanup of a contaminated neighbourhood is four months behind schedule, but tests show the cleanup technology will work, concerned residents were told yesterday. Groundwater near Bishop Street North is contaminated by a noxious industrial solvent called trichloroethylene ... Full Story

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Our personal experience with TCE

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
 The Bishop Street community Here is the short list of injustices we suffered at the hands of our Polluter They got to hire their own independent company who did all the testing on our contaminated homes.. (Their test results only showed the levels of TCE .. not the Chromium 6,  Arsenic or the ... Full Story

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Latest study says TCE worse than thought, Conclusions could lead EPA to propose tougher regulations

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health
This ran in the Mountain View Voice California... your comments invited below by Daniel DeBolt Mountain View Voice Staff The Environmental Protection Agency has released a new report concluding that TCE — trichloroethylene, a pollutant found in much of Mountain View's groundwater — is definitely a carcinogen, a finding which could lead ... Full Story

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Region targets 2,655 properties that could pose threat to groundwater

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.
This ran in the KW Record, your comments invited below By Jeff Outhit, Record staff WATERLOO REGION — Planners have surveyed the region to identify 2,655 properties that could threaten drinking water drawn from the ground. They include farms, businesses, institutions, schools, government sites and rural homes not on municipal sewers. Residents in this ... Full Story

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Town’s chief administrative officer resigns after just six months on the job

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Humour and Satire
This ran in the Niagara Advance.. your comments welcomed below Don Smith, the chief administrative officer for the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, will be leaving his post April 6. Smith joined the town staff part-time last June, beginning his full-time duties in July. He has been living part-time in Niagara-on-the-Lake and returning to his ... Full Story

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