From Quebec, ( finally) the link between TCE and Cancer
Jan 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Section: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE.[TCE] Shannon, Quebec health study
TCE causes DNA changes
Researchers find link between chemical, cancer in Shannon, Que.
Radio-Canada probe shows federal government knew of dangers 30 years ago
CBC News
January 29, 2009
Montreal researchers have found a link between cancer rates in the town
of Shannon, Que., and exposure to a chemical that was dumped into the
community’s lagoons decades ago.
For years, people living in the community north of Quebec City have
watched an unusually high number of residents fall ill with cancer.
Many have suspected the cases were connected to the discovery of
trichloroethylene (TCE) in the community’s water table.
For the entire story, see
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/29/mtl-tce-shannon-researchers-0129.html
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Below is a list of Local Offenders
I suspect this list will grow over the next few days.
No longer can Ontario and Canada be allowed to deny this deadly toxin.
Facility Location Est. users TCE max. TCE avg. Comments
Seagrams Plant Waterloo, ON ? 73 alcoholic beverage distillery; on-site spillage from machine shop; VC by-product
Shanley Street Industrial Park Kitchener, ON ? 130 light manufacturing; illegal waste disposal
Sunar Hauserman Plant Waterloo, ON ? 290 on-site drainage dumps; on-site drinking water from Waterloo municipal water supply
Petro-Canada Dundas St. Service Station Cambridge, ON ? 288 by-product DCE (51.6); on-site drinking water supplied by Cambridge municipal system (deep bedrock aquifer)
Allen Bradley Plant Cambridge, ON ? 780 municipal aquifer in bedrock
Greening Donald Wire Fabrication Plant Wellington, ON ? 1,100 on-site solvent spillage; by-products Cis-DCE (56), Trans-DCE (0.5) & 1-1-DCE (13)
Greb Skate and Shoe Manufacturing Plant Kitchener, ON ? 330,000 Spillage into floor drains and pits; municipal wells 2 km down gradient
Electrohome Plant Kitchener, ON ? 2,000,000 14 on-site spillage, deep municipal aquifer in the area; VC by-product
Northstar ;Cambridge spill has been called of historic proportion
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Press Releases
QUÉBEC, Jan. 29
Media advisory about the Shannon TCE water contamination and its pending class action lawsuit
Date : Friday January 30 2009
Time : 9:30am
Place : Offices of Charles Veilleux & Associés,
Avocats, LL.P., s.e.n.c.r.l.,
1040 Avenue Belvédère, bureau 204
Québec, (Québec) G1S 3G3
Conference Room S/S
QUÉBEC, Jan. 29 /CNW Telbec/ - Radio Canada's Newsmagazine ENQUÊTE airing Thursday January 29 at 8pm will focus on the water contamination in Shannon, QC.
Me Charles-A. Veilleux, his team and Mrs. Marie-Paule Spieser, representative for the group in the class action will hold a briefing Friday at 9:30am to give an update on the case and take questions.
Also present will be Jean Bernier, Dr. Claude Juneau, longtime physician in Shannon, some members of the class action whose situation is highly unusual and also Dr. Michel Charbonneau INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier who will address questions regarding the cancer cases in Shannon and how they relate to trichloroethylene (TCE) (the TCE signature on chromosome 3)
For questions concerning the methodology of biopsy analysis, contact Dr. Sydney Finkelstein, RedPath Integrated Pathology Inc. Ph: 412-231-3600 sdf@redpathip.com
The chemical compound trichloroethylene (TCE) is a powerful industrial solvent and metal degreaser and its numerous by-products have a high toxicity that has affected hundred of Shannon residents. Its signature has been found in cancerous tissues of the residents. TCE is a widely used mutagen and has been found in high concentrations in the Shannon water table. Scientific studies have shown that its elimination can take hundreds of years.