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Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:42:43 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Brian C. Bradley" <ax876@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Kevin Chisholm <kchishol@fox.nstn.ca>
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The Honourable Ralph Goodale
Minister of Natural Resources, Canada
Ottawa, ON  K1A 0E4
Fax: 613-996-4516

Re: Continued Environmental Contamination

Over twenty years ago an unbiased and effective compilation of the facts
surrounding the application of arsenic-ladden insecticides and pesticides
was published under the title: "Silent Spring" (by Rachel Carson, New
York: Fawcett Crest, 1962, 304p.).

Subsequent to the aforementioned publication, a multitude of articles
condemning the use of arsenic have also come to the attention of the
electorate (see attached).

As the threat of arsenic continues to be assigned the label of
"non-threshold toxin" by independent authorities in the health fields,
when will this government begin to clean up the mess (and its act)
resulting from the production of CCA wood?

As there are alternative treatments currently available which are not
toxic, how much longer must we the taxpayer pay for the desecration of our
environment, our land and our homes from the proliferation of these
neurotoxins and carcinogens?

When will our elected officials follow the promised mandates of their
electoral platforms and ensure a better environment for its electorate and
our children?

How much longer must we tolerate the profit-taking of the CCA wood
industry at the expense of our health and environment?

What part of the inevitable tax-payers' burdens in cleaning up this mess,
are the politician's willing to share (i.e., as a direct burden upon their
pensions and other benefits)?

Thank you very much for your consideration of the details in this
application.

Yours truly,



Brian C. Bradley
Lower Sackville, NS		email:ax876@chebucto.ns.ca
B4C 3K9

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