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Category Asbestos
Where are Canada’s asbestos cement drinking water pipes? Check the data for where you live
Does your community have asbestos cement in aging drinking water pipes? Statistics Canada's first national inventory shows almost 13,700 km of these pipes nationally.
Drinking asbestos is safe? Health Canada’s new study can’t see why not
Health Canada commissioned a flawed study that purportedly confirmed that there is no "consistent, convincing evidence' that drinking asbestos causes cancer.
Glimmer of hope in Canadian government response re. asbestos-cement drinking water pipes?
Prevent Cancer Now believes Canada must acknowledge that asbestos is just as unsafe to drink as it is to breathe, and must move to address this carcinogen in tap water.
Asbestos Cement Water Pipes Petition Tabled in House of Commons
Aging pipes are shedding asbestos into the water, and this comes with cancer risks. Even as the pipes break more and more, very few Canadian municipalities test for asbestos. Canadians deserve to know a lot more about how water is delivered to homes, schools, and businesses across the country.
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Health Canada's 1989 assessment of ingested asbestos is incomplete and out of date.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.
Federal Asbestos Turnaround by 2018 — Much-Needed and Overdue
Historic Turnaround on Asbestos Puts Canada on a New, Difficult Path As sure as asbestos-caused cancer can be deadly, Canada’s decades of politicized support for asbestos, followed by neglect of…