Asbestos Warning, LBNL 2009
August 15th, 2011 a member of the Quebec National Assembly decided to give Indian-born Canadian businessman Baljit Singh Chadha more time to find private investors for an underground asbestos mining project in order to qualify for a $58 million gift from the Quebec government. The international consortium was to have come up with $25 million in order to qualify for this large subsidy from the Quebec government by July 1st. The deadline was extended to August 15th and now has been re-extended to the 1st of October. The Canadian Cancer Society says more than 100,000 people die worldwide every year from occupational exposure to asbestos.
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I had no idea that companies were still mining asbestos! That is ridiculous given the vast sums of money being spent on removing it from existing buildings.
I agree, Dan. It is ridiculous. It would make a lot more sense to prevent exposure to asbestos in the first place, rather than mining it, transporting it, building with it, and then removing it from the things we built with it, exposing everyone all along the way. We do similarly illogical things with not only lots of toxic chemical substances, but also with our human waste. First we put our bodily wastes into perfectly clean drinking water, and then spend a lot of money taking it out of the water. All the while we are running out of clean drinking water very quickly. We need a fundamental turn around in the way we operate. That is why I am making Nei Jing Now!