Open Pit Mining with no thought of safety or protection
Here we will provide information about the miners and the danger they faced in Canada for over a century in the open pit asbestos mines. The modern asbestos mining methods are far more protective to the miners with education and high safety standards. Canadian asbestos is the white fibrous variety known as Chrysotile. Miners and others have been incorrectly told that white asbestos is safe and that only blue asbestos is dangerous. Modern asbestos mining in Canada is done with extreme safeguards.
Johns Manville worker crushing asbestos
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Sad to say, we will continue to export it and workers and the public will continue to die.And this is why- Asbestos Corporation of Canada is a Quebec based company, one of the, if not the largest employer in the Eastern Townships. The few thousand workers involved are in Quebec. The Government (so called) of this country has, over the years and in order to curry votes, given Quebec Nation status, with their own immigration policies, pensions, a lions share of transfer payments, the ability to ban English from signs and schools, predominance in the civil service and the military (one of the main reasons separation is feared) and seventy plus votes in the House. No government forms a majority without winning Quebec, who, pragmatic always, vote with the prevailing wind, in their own interests without regard to Canada. Hence, the Bloc. Who will, by the way, soon again form her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in the coming Harper Majority- much to my disgust.You know all this. So the Canadian government will not ban asbestos, or close up the mines, and certainly this government, as previous Liberal governments, will do nothing to hassle Corporations. People will have to continue to die, because profits have to (and will) be made, taxes will have to be paid, the shareholders must realize a return on their investments, and the Federal governments of any stripe will have to toady to the Quebecois till they or we decide we’ve had enough.On a personal note, I’ve seen asbestos in use recently, and over the years, in India. Its used there for roofing- large sheets of it two by eight and four by eight- most housing seems to use it. I’ve slept under it for months at a time. If its not cut or drilled into I’m willing to believe its less of a problem there than so many other hazards especially diesel pollution.The workers who cut it, and install it no doubt suffer from its effects, or would, if their poverty, malnutrition and other diseases didn’t finish them off sooner.So lets see- a Quebec Corporation, thousands of jobs in Quebec, the workers here who do suffer any effects are dying off and the workers in developing ( a nice word for poor and exploited) countries are just poor sods who don’t really count- at least not where politics and money are concerned. As for American workers dying of asbestos poisoning? My heart goes out to them and their families. But their politicians are worse (if possible) whores than ours, and Public Health care, paid by taxes, with the well off paying for the poor, is not and will not be an option there in the foreseeable future. And as they spiral down to increased poverty, religious fundamentalism, fascism and war without end, asbestos will be the least of their, and our, problems.-Bill
Harper Side-Steps Asbestos Export Responsibility As He Applauds His Own Environmental Awareness and Scientists Urge Premier Of Quebec To Stop The Hypocrisy And Ban Asbestos Exports.