Quebec is once again taking flack from the international health community as a loan awaits approval to fund the reopening of asbestos producing Jeffrey Mine in the town of Asbestos. The fifty-eight million dollars from Quebec would employ four hundred people at Jeffrey Mine and keep the facility open for twenty-five years.
Thirty-six physicians and public health experts representing twenty-one countries have written a letter to Canada’s Premier Jean Charest condemning the mine and asking the loan to be denied. Philip Landrigan, dean of Global Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said in the letter, “Chrysotile asbestos causes serious harm to health
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