Quebec’s top public health officer says “it is unacceptable” for the Horne copper smelter in Rouyn-Noranda to continue emitting toxic arsenic and cadmium at the levels it now does, given the increased cancer risk to people who live nearby.
Dr. Luc Boileau weighed in on the debate over toxic emissions from Canada’s only copper smelter in the wake of a new study by Quebec’s public health institute, the INSPQ.
That study found the 23,000 people living in the core of the city in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region have a significantly higher risk of developing lung cancer than people who are not exposed to
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