BACKGROUND: RetiredNorthern Health Authority chief medical health officer, Dr. David Bowering, warns of the accumulated effects of sulphur dioxide(S02) from Rio Tinto’s modernized Kitimat aluminum smelter.
Although a new smelting process has drastically reduced the quantity of particulate and by-product emissions, that’s not been the case with S02.
While the provincial government accepted Rio Tinto’s position that S02 emissions would not be harmful and would bedispersed throughout the area’s airshed, Bowering likened the situation to the 1940s when tobacco companies downplayedthe effects of smoking on human health, a factor that was only affirmed after years of research and studies.
FULL STORY: Retired chief medical health officer not backing down from smelter concerns
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