New Figures show the health costs of treating asbestos related diseases are four times the cost of producing the material. If you spend one dollar to buy asbestos, you are spending four dollars to treat and compensate the condition caused by this. AHMAD QURESIHI In Queensland alone, we know that…
To remove asbestos (vermiculite) from this heritage home attic we needed to create a 3 stage decontamination containment. You can see the plastic (2 * 6m poly wall) going right into the attic. This allows us to contain any potential contamination of the home while work is taking place. This…
This was in an empty home in Oak Bay that is slated for asbestos abatement. Meanwhile a dear takes advantage of the uninhabited lot.
This vermiculite (insulation) spilled out of the wall in an Oak Bay heritage home (built 1879) when the cable company cut into the wall to move telephone and cable connections. The homeowner called us while he was gathering information on how best to proceed. We sealed the entire area off with 2 layers of poly (as…
Good work CBC, this is useful information to put compile for reference – CBC has produced a national inventory of federal buildings containing asbestos.
There’s no safe form of asbestos, and there is no known ‘safe’ level of exposure to asbestos. We need to work for large-scale bans on the use of asbestos. Asbestos is an anachronistic kind of word – it sounds like a worry of the past. The world itself is practically synonymous…
“We weren’t aware of the toxicity. I’m expecting lung cancer in the coming years, as are most of the men here,” Biremon said. BANABA ISLAND, Kiribati—Asbestos dust covers the floors of Banaba’s crumbling colonial houses, buildings, and schools. It’s in the field where people plant cassava. Broken pieces of asbestos…
Democratic members of the New York State Assembly have introduced a bill that aims to improve the transparency of asbestos trust claims and prevent duplicative recoveries through the tort system. Last month, a group of lawmakers, led by Buffalo-area Democrat Robin Schimminger, introduced an act to amend rules in asbestos-related actions, A5978. The…
Canada is still mining asbestos and shipping it overseas where it is being used in the types of construction and processes that we no longer allow domestically. It is disturbing to see workers in contact with high concentrations of asbestos fibers with no protective gear and with limited risk awareness.
Last year, after decades of insisting to the contrary, Ottawa finally admitted that “asbestos, if inhaled, can cause cancer and other diseases.” Just before this long-delayed catharsis, the government ended its perennial opposition to the inclusion of the most common form of asbestos on an international list of hazardous substances.…