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Natural gas is neither a cleaner nor safer form of fuel energy
Natural gas is neither clean nor green, and is not a "bridge fuel."
France bans Apple iPhone 12 while Canadians remain at risk
Sales of iphone 12 continue in Canada, while France stopped sales due to excessive radiofrequency emissions. There is no record of Industry Canada testing the phones. Testing loopholes might not protect Canadians.
The Futility of Carbon Capture and Storage
Federal tax dollars for Carbon Capture and Storage are a direct subsidy to a very profitable but toxic fossil fuel industry. The Canadian government's billions for this unproven technology provides a delay for fossil fuels carbon emissions to continue unabated through 2050.
Misconceptions of what ‘net-zero emissions’ actually means will have dire health impacts
Current plans for addressing climate change are incompatible with an acceptable destiny. Our future health, as opposed to dollars, must become our priority.
Groups call for Senate vote on environmental racism bill before summer recess
Canada's environmental racism bill, Bill C-226 is stalled in the Senate. PCN is one of more than 30 Canadian environment, health and other NGOs urging the Senate to move it forward before the summer recess.
In Federal Court: slow chlorpyrifos phase-out highlights systemic issues with Health Canada’s management of toxic chemicals
Chlorpyrifos is toxic and persistent, including causing brain damage in children. After being banned in the EU and the US, sales and use ended within months. Health Canada is allowing three more years of use in Canada.
Inhaled or ingested, asbestos causes cancer
Health Canada's 1989 assessment of ingested asbestos is incomplete and out of date. Asbestos is a multi-site carcinogen. Swallowing it can lead to liver and gastrointestinal cancers.
Canada’s asbestos cement water pipe research — a brief history
Deteriorated asbestos cement pipes can shed fibres into the water and pose a hazard of cancer. Canada’s Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Research (CSIR) in Regina (now closed) produced many studies of asbestos cement (AC) water pipes as a health concern.
La consultation du gouvernement fédéral débouche sur une étonnante préférence commune : la mise aux enchères proposée pour les ondes millimétriques de la 5G est, au mieux, prématurée
Il est rare que les personnes militant en faveur de réseaux câblés plus sûrs et les entreprises de télécommunications utilisant le spectre des radiofréquences soient sur la même longueur d’onde. Un thème commun est toutefois apparu dans les réponses à…
Federal consultation yields surprising common ground: the proposed 5G mmWave auction is premature, at best
PCN and C4ST examined submissions to the ISED 26, 28 and 38 GHz consultations, and found a surprising agreement between the telecommunications companies and the citizens' groups, that the auction should not proceed as planned.