<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3">Hi everyone</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3">Today a new study links Cancer to Ontario communities. In the lead: Sarnia by Aamjiwnaang</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/05/28/news/new-study-says-there-are-strikingly-high-rates-cancer-some-ontario-industrial-cities" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/05/28/news/new-study-says-there-are-strikingly-high-rates-cancer-some-ontario-industrial-cities</a><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3">Background look: </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3">I've been involved with the issue on Benzene for may years raising the concern at the National Energy Board during the London hearings. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font color="#14171a" size="3"><font style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At the first Line 9 hearing in London Ontario I asked Enbridge to do test in area wells for benzene which is an indicator for oil spills. In the response letter they stated: </font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font color="#14171a" size="3"><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></i></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><font color="#14171a"><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A leak from a pipeline of Benzene alone is highly unlikely as it is just one of many hydrocarbon constitutions that make up crude oil. If a leak were to occur, Enbridge would immediately implement it's emergency response measures in order to minimize impacts to human health and the environment. </span></i></font><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">In the PDF of the National Energy Board minutes of the Line 9 B hearing in</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"> Line 3877, from the City of Toronto, they admit "An oil spill that enters a water treatment plant is a threat primarily because the benzene in the material is not removed by the treatment process used at municipal plants."</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">On Line 3491 states that benzene and toluene are carcinogenic and that diluted bitumen and drag reducing agents contain benzene, polycyclic hydrocarbons and n-hexane.<br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is the PDF file link: file:///C:/Users/water/Downloads/A3Q0R2%20-%2013-10-16%20-%20Volume%205.pdf<br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">Benzene has a safety limit of 0.1 ppb for occupational workers but this report states there is 1.0 to 1.8 ppb in diluent used by Enbridge.<br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.hngnews.com/lake_mills_leader/news/local/article_f57f4542-5354-11e6-ab42-b3ba1a14f74d.html?mode=jqm" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hngnews.com/lake_mills_leader/news/local/article_f57f4542-5354-11e6-ab42-b3ba1a14f74d.html?mode=jqm</a><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">Jan 11/2013 Shell sour water leak of mercaptan, hydrogen sulfide & benzene via flare system. It took 1 hour to notify residents of Aamjiwnnang. </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been repeated leaks of benzene that have happened and this article below notes how they found this chemical in the standing water of area ditches. </span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><a href="https://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCABRE97C10O20130813" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCABRE97C10O20130813</a><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3">Even after the court process secured a promise from Ontario to review the situation the issues kept repeating. <span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); letter-spacing: 0.51px;">Nearly once a week on average, the Aamjiwnaang First Nation receives and then warns the community about a leak or a spill. Warnings of increased odours come at the same rate. Noise alerts are weekly on average and warnings about large flames shooting out of the plant stacks happen on average twice a week.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4659040/toxic-emissions-spilling-into-sarnia-year-after-ontario-promised-change/" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font size="3">https://globalnews.ca/news/4659040/toxic-emissions-spilling-into-sarnia-year-after-ontario-promised-change/</font></a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Lulu </div></div><br></div></div></body></html>