Etiket: Smelter
Arsenic at the Horne Smelter | Still several “steps” before reaching the Quebec standard, says Boileau
Désolé, votre navigateur ne supporte pas les videos Il faudra plusieurs « étapes » avant d’atteindre la norme québécoise sur les concentrations d’arsenic de 3 nanogrammes par mètre cube d’air à la…
Horne smelter: arsenic emissions are “not tolerable”, says Dr. Boileau
Maintaining the current level of arsenic emissions from the Horne smelter “is not tolerable” considering the health impacts of this carcinogen, said the national director of public health, the Dr…
Horne smelter: an “untolerable” level of arsenic emissions in Rouyn-Noranda
Maintaining the current level of arsenic emissions from the Horne Foundry “is not tolerable”, said Wednesday the national director of public health, Dr. Luc Boileau. If Glencore does not reduce…
Arsenic: Quebec ready to finance or close the Rouyn-Noranda smelter
The Quebec government could financially help the multinational Glencore to reduce arsenic emissions from its Rouyn-Noranda smelter or close it if the facility does not commit to stop exposing the…
Rouyn-Noranda doctors stand up against arsenic from the Horne smelter
About fifty doctors from Rouyn-Noranda are going to the front to ensure that the arsenic emissions from the Horne smelter, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, correspond to the standards of the Ministry of…
Workers oppose closure of smelter in ‘Chilean Chernobyl’
Désolé, votre navigateur ne supporte pas les videos (Santiago du Chili) Les salariés de l’entreprise publique chilienne Codelco, plus grand producteur de cuivre au monde, ont entamé mercredi une grève…
Cancer cases in Rouyn-Noranda | Dr Arruda met with the Horne smelter before pulling information
Horacio Arruda met with representatives of the Horne Foundry in Rouyn-Noranda on September 26, 2019, before removing from a document that was to be made public an appendix evoking the…
Using a QR Code | The Steelworkers campaign to unionize the Alouette aluminum smelter
The Steelworkers union has just launched a new kind of campaign to organize some 900 workers at the Aluminerie Alouette in Sept-Îles. Posted at 2:11 p.m. Updated at 3:19 p.m.…
Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Rise in arsenic emissions from the Horne Smelter
Arsenic emissions from the Horne Foundry in Rouyn-Noranda increased in 2021 compared to 2020 and continue to greatly exceed the legal standard, Quebec government data shows. Posted at 5:00 p.m.…