[All] IICPH needs our help to get the message on nuclear power out.

Sat Sep 1 23:33:29 EDT 2012

Hi Everyone

The International Institute for Concern for Public Health (IICPH) was founded by the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell, who was a grey nun and global expert on low dose radiation and impacts on human health. It was her research that inspired me to coordinate an anti war Protest March called Waterloo Walks for Peace. I gave numerous lectures in various communities and on City TV regarding the hazards of depleted uranium based on her data that showed how Gulf War syndrome was actually radiation poisoning. How the Gulf War was actually a nuclear war, one bullet and bomb at a time.

Now her agency is asking for my help to promote the dangers of Ontario's nuclear power plans. 

I have since informed my friend Angela Bischoff from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance to include the IICPH into their membership and I'm networking her with others that I know including GREN.  Perhaps in the days ahead we may wish to facilitate a public lecture for this group to educate our local residents about the hazards of Nuclear Power.  

If that topic could be brought into the agenda for our October 17th GREN meeting, I'd appreciate that. Here is the website for the group. http://concernforhealth.org/

Thanks folks

Lulu 

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From: IICPH <info at iicph.org>
To: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com> 
Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Concern re: Uranium issues at the Alberta Tarsands.

I am very pleased that you got in touch with us. We have been working since 1984 to influence people and governments about these hazards particularly ionizing (nuclear) radiation. We have managed to influence a lot of people including ones in environmental NGOs. However, along with our colleagues, reaching the critical mass of people in Canada necessary to force the government to phase out nuclear industries has been unsuccessful. 
In Germany, since Fukushima, they achieved that critical mass and successfully got the German government to back away from their plans to build new reactors and they are going to be phasing out the ones they now have. Other European countries have now followed their lead. At present, the Japanese citizens are working on their government to gain the same result. 
Because of your interest, I would like to talk to you about possibly working together with us in our campaign to educate the public particularly in Ontario. The Ontario government is planning to build as many as possibly four new reactors at Darlington nuclear power station. We are engaged at present with other NGOs in trying to persuade them against this. 
Marion Odell
1-905-906-6128
info at iicph.org
www.iicph.org

sEE 

On 27 August 2012 00:06, Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com> wrote:

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>At a conference at University of Waterloo on August 24,  there were representatives from Fort Chipewyan Alberta.  They said the tar sands are set to run out of Natural Gas in 25 years and that operations will be replaced by planned nuclear power from 13 nuclear plants. I asked the residents if there is Uranium in the soil up that way and they confirmed it. They said there is actually a massive quarry planned to extract Uranium 19km away from Fort Chipewyan to supply the proposed nuke plants. 
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>They spoke of the numerous deformed fish that have tumors and deformities including a double jawed white fish with eye teeth on the bottom jaw. Normally white fish have no eye teeth at all. Numerous photos of the deformed fish have been circulated in the media. 
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>Currently the workers at the tar sands are removing massive quantities of sediment each day. I have not encountered any information regarding the impacts of the dust particulates associated with the sediment removal at all. Everyone's focused on the oil not the sediment but I have found online reports by the Alberta Government which speak of the prospects of Uranium Mining. Here is one example:  http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/minerals/uranium/index.html
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>Like Ontario, the Alberta MNR has no regard at all for potential cumiliative impacts of environmental discharge or emissions. There is no centralized database on it. Generally discharge permits are kept by corporations in hand. Particulate concerns may or may not be part of the permit process but I'm not sure. Generally in Ontario, Canada, aggregates are not required to have Environmental Assessment processes on the believe it's not releasing anything into the environment. There is no regard for what toxins they might actually be digging up or the impacts of the dust they stir up. 
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>A group called Gravelwatch has information about how gravel dust can kill people at the following website: 
>http://www.gravelwatch.org/dust.htm
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>Currently there is a high rate of kidney failure and diabetes among the Aboriginal communities in Alberta, lots of cancer and deformed fish in the folks upstream from the Tar Sands. All the muskrats are dead and gone. I'm wondering if uranium dust may be partially to blame.
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>We have a doctor at University of Waterloo who measured the urine of Gulf War vets in Canada and found 10 years after exposure they still had radiation in their urine. It would be interesting to know if workers involved with tar sands have levels of uranium toxicity.
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>The interesting thing about the concept of radioactive particulate is that it could travel down wind places like Edmonton and Calgary on the wind or cause long term radioactive damage to adjacent areas offsite.  If a link like that could be proven, it might give leverage to the movement to reduce tar sands expansions.
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>Personally speaking, I am simply a housewife but I greatly admired the work of Rosalie Bertell and I wanted to relay the concern to your agency in hopes that perhaps someone can look into the matter. If you know of others who could help please feel free to relay the message. 
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>Thank you very much. 
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>Louisette Lanteigne
>700 Star Flower Ave.
>Waterloo ON
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