ELKFORD B.C. - cancer cluster over toxic landfill

[Karlin]

ha!!!

This story is EVIDENCE that toxins are the main cause of cancers, which is a truth the Canadian Cancer Society and our own government are so very slow to accept and warn Canadians about. In fact, they seem to be doing "everything else" as a way to distract us from this most vital truth. Not much help... not much humanity.

This story was reported in the VAncouver Sun today Ap 19 2006, and reports that 17 people on ONE BLOCK are ill with cancer. DAvid Jones survived one cancer, and now has been ill with "something undiagnosed". Ya.... awful kind of price to pay for buying a house in Elkford that came without any notice of postential toxins.

It appears that a corporation that is now defunct [Dunhill Development Corp Ltd] bought a bunch of land, including a portion over an old landfill that had been used "for all things", as dumps were before the 1970s. The Corporation built houses on the land and sold them to residents coming in to work the newly opened coal operations there in Elk Valley. There was no indication of an old dumpsite, and people moving into the area would have no way to know about it.

Without disclosing this vital information, that corporation has subjected many people to deadly illnesses from toxins.

"I think it is a cover up , 100% " says David Jones "Theres little kids all over here with cancer. They don't deserve this"

No kidding.

So, now how do you other posters feel about labels on products with toxic content - isn't "disclosure of the toxic contents" better than this mess in Elkford?

AS you may have read in my other cancer posts, there is a doctor saying our government has a list of the products with toxins,AND the cancers realated to those toxins, but refuses to let the public see it. AND they are stalling on labelling legistlation.

NOW tell me this isn't a government, and a world, that has given far too much power to corporations and Elites!! They are willing to risk or threaten your life for an extra percent of profits, and have hog-tied our governments into letting them get away with it.

Karlin,
the Un-Corporated Guy :wink:

 

[nelk]

We spend years at the Alberta side of this coalmining area.
Black dust was in the air near the mine sites from Coleman to Sparwood and Elkford and also in the head waters of the Crowsnest river.
Fortunately the Chinooks helped to clear the air unless someone lived downwind of sourgas plants an Albertas eastern slopes of the Rockies.

For us the most poignant views were the many elks comimg down to the main road around Sparwood.
I used to hunt, but these animal not only looked sick and behaved way too docile (doped) but also produced droppings with a black colour like coal pellets.
I guess that what they were.

Beautiful scenery discounting the mining sites etc.

But big commercial interests can and have ruined much of this world.

 

[Sassylassie]

We the People of Planet Earth are not doing Mother Nature much good are we? I'd like to see a sincere effort made Globally to start cleaning up our act both on a Personal Level and Corporate Level.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

The existence of such a cluster doesn't prove anything by itself, suggestive though it certainly is. Random events do cluster in statistically predictable ways that look non-random, and people always respond to information about such clusters in the same way. It's so common, in fact, epidemiologists have named it the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, a reference to a guy who shoots holes in a wall then draws a target around them. To statisticians, it's called the Clustering Illusion.

I don't have any Canadian references, but thousands of studies of cancer clusters in the U.S. have failed to produce any convincing link between cancer clusters and environmental factors, according to an article in the New Yorker magazine from 1999. That doesn't mean there isn't a link in this case, nor does it mean we shouldn't clean up the planet and take better care of it (we certainly should, in fact), it means only that the existence of the cluster itself doesn't prove the link.

 

[zoofer]

The site was checked and no carcinogens were found. If all the cancers were the same type it would be suspicious but they are different.
The old guy I saw on TV News was suing for compensation for his prostate cancer. Seems to me if most guys live long enough they get prostate cancer.