Manitoba Hydro Insulation Program Eligibility Your home qualifies if: April 19 2003 Danger seen in popular home insulation product: Some vermiculite product tainted by toxic asbestos. Production stopped in 1984 at Montana mine.
Isolation Eric Dutton.
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Danger seen in popular home insulation product. Every homeowner has reason to be concerned about potentially. Canadian homes - urea. Now it may be time to add another one to the list.
In its latest. environmental law bulletin, the Toronto environmental law firm of Willms & Shier. Canadian homes. Carcinogenic asbestos fibres in the vermiculite may be contaminating hundreds. Canadian homes, according to the Willms & Shier newsletter.
It seems that vermiculite attic insulation sold under the trade name Zonolite. Canadian homes. By itself, vermiculite is harmless.
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In fact, it used to be called . It was a very popular product in Canada and the. United States for three decades, from the 1. In fact. under its Canadian Home Insulation Program (CHIP), the Canadian government. A primary source of the material was a mine in Libby, Montana, operated by. W. R. The documentary stated that more than 7. Libby before the mine was closed.
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Recently, I spoke to Bruce Stewart, senior vice president of Pinchin. Environmental Ltd., one of Canada s largest environmental health and safety. He told me that 9. Canadian supplies of. Montana. It was shipped to six Canadian.
Montreal, St. Thomas, Ajax, Toronto, and. Western Canada. Stewart s estimate was that as many as 3. American homes contain the. It s anyone s guess how many hundreds of thousands of. Canadian homes are contaminated. The best advice for the owners of those homes is to avoid any contact with. It only becomes dangerous.
Environmental Protection Agency, as few as four or five. Any disturbance of the attic material can be dangerous. Remodelling. plumbing, wiring, renovation or storing goods in the attic can lead to serious. Removal of contaminated vermiculite insulation can be very expensive because.
Only expert testing can determine whether vermiculite insulation material is. Libby mine, and the typical homeowner will have no idea whether the. As a result, a warranty in an agreement of. W. R. Grace says on its Web site that there is no unreasonable risk of injury. Following a torrent of lawsuits filed against it, W. R. Grace filed for. The Canadian government through its Health Canada Web site remains silent on.
CHIP program. It s time for the Canadian government to take ownership of the problem, and. Canadians. Bob Aaron is a. Toronto real estate lawyer. Send questions to Bob Aaron, 1. King Street. East, #1. Toronto, Ontario M5.
C 1. C3, or by e- mail to bob@ aaron. Bob Aaron is a Toronto real estate lawyer. He can be reached by email at bob@aaron.
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