TOXIC CORNER

Statement made by Bill Enouy in reference to PCB and heavy metal contaminated soil to be incinerated by Bennett Industries in Kirkland Lake.

"For God's sake, we are talking about soil here, not nuclear waste."

Bill Enouy,
Mayor,
Town of Kirkland Lake
Northern Daily News
Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Experts Urge Ban on Production,
Use Of World's Most Toxic Chemicals
Top Public Health, Activist and Scientific Experts Brief International Press in Montreal; Urge Elimination of Most Dangerous Chemicals

MONTREAL, June 29 -- Some of the world's leading scientists and health experts today called on representatives of over 100 nations to eliminate at least a dozen of the world's most toxic chemical pollutants. The nations are meeting here to begin negotiations for a treat to reduce Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) -- chemicals scientists link to birth defects and other abnormalities. These chemicals pose an urgent public health threat to the entire world because they travel via air and water and thereby accumulate in the bodies of people and animals.

Statement made by Bill Enouy in reference to PCB and heavy metal contaminated soil to be incinerated by Bennett Industries in Kirkland Lake.

"For God's sake, we are talking about soil here, not nuclear waste."

Bill Enouy,
Mayor,
Town of Kirkland Lake
Northern Daily News
Thursday, November 29, 2001
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INCINERATORS make waste more toxic and ...

Do not eliminate waste, but change the form of waste into hazardous air emissions and toxic ash.

Convert 30% of the waste burned into toxic ash, which EPA allows to be used as daily landfill cover.

Spread hazardous contamination worldwide; contaminating air, soil, and water.

Are a major source of 210 different dioxin compounds, plus mercury, cadmium, nitrous oxide, hydrogen chloride, sulfuric acid, fluorides, and particulate matter small enough to lodge permanently in the lungs