For years the community has believed that theres lots of cancer,; said Donna Cyprien, health director of the Nunee Health Authority. When they drank from the water, there was an oily scum around the cup. We now know there is something wrong.
Mrs. Cyprien said that the local health board hired Dr. Timoney largely because it had lost faith in Alberta's provincial health department.
Like Dr. Timoney, scientists who have reviewed his report say further studies are necessary to determine the cause and extent of the problem. But they also expressed concern about what his research had already found. [...]
Most disturbing, said Dr. Short, was the finding that from 2001 to 2005, concentrations in sediments of a group of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons rose.
These are substantial increases over and above the natural levels; said Dr. Short, adding that the hydrocarbons are notorious carcinogens, found in tar and tarlike materials. In some cases, they were more than four times recommended limits in the United States. (Canada has no guidelines.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/business/worldbusiness/09sands.html?ref=science
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Dr John O'Connor still Being Persecuted<br />
<a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/dr-john-oconnor-still-being-persecuted">http://oilsandstruth.org/dr-john-oconnor-still-being-persecuted</a><br />
"Sounds Like Canada has been following the story of health concerns in Fort Chipewyan for the past year. On March 5th, Shelagh Rogers spoke with CBC health reporter Erik Denison about the problem. The item promopted a lot of mail from Sounds Like Canada listeners, and Erik joins Shelagh to read through the letters."<br />
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/20070312.shtml">http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/20070312.shtml</a><br />
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Rather than examine the wierd stuff happening in and around Fort Chip to both people and wild life, they choose instead to threaten and to question the credentials of the doctor who observed these "discrepancies".<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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