Posted on March 7, 2016
By Daybreak North, CBC News
An environmental group is taking legal action to demand that Environment and Climate Change Canada investigate possible health impacts if a Canadian potash exporting company dredged sediment from Prince Rupert harbour.
Canpotex, which is looking to construct an export terminal on Ridley Island, has been issued a renewed permit that allows the company to lift sediment from the harbour bottom and deposit it elsewhere in the harbour. The company says it will comply with all government regulations and takes the environmental impact of the work “very seriously.”
But the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation says that dioxins and furans — toxic chemicals that are found in very small amounts in the environment — are in the sediment.
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