My neighbour

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Hi all, I feel like venting a little today 12 days after the

inplantation of my Pacemaker, I'm doing okay but a little fatigue. I

want to share a letter sent by one of my nieghbour that also suffer

from the toxics coming from a dump that we have battle to have closed

since a fire was declared back in December of 2004 the dump was

opened

in 1989 and was never managed properly by the owners and for 4 years

before the fire it was never inspected by our minitry of the

environment here in Quebec, Canada what a shame.

Here is the letter from my neighbour;

Bonjour Madame la ministre Line Beauchamp,

Since the fall of 2004, my husband and I have unpleasantly aware of

the

Cantley DMS. We heve smelled the gasses, we have had the sore,

burning

throats, the headaches, the heavy chests, the coughing and the thick

mucus, the sore, dry eyes, the itchy skin, apnea and high blood

presure. All of these symptoms can be traced back to the gases we are

daily breathing in Daily, since before we even noticed the presece of

H2S, we know there many gases present that are odourless and escaping

from the filter system.

In March 2005, the day before we evacuated our farm and home(coming

back and forth 3x/day to fed and clean the cattle and sheep) our best

cattle dog was uthanized and an autpsy done right then. All this just

before Ministry of Environment and the owners of the DMS put on their

news conference to " reasure " us.

The autopsy ststed that our dog had a rare and quick cancer of the

lungs. His symptoms began after Chistmas 07, with just a cough, then

to

goughing and vomiting. Then the rolling of his nose in the snow,

leaving the snow on his muzzle. He then began to have more trouble

breathing, his head hung low and stretched out to somehow get more

oxygenin. He soon could not keep any food down. We were in plans to

take chest x-rays with our vets portable machine, but on that morning

visit he couldn't even get up. Our good and faithful companion was

then

injected, and the vet began the autosy on site of our farm.

Samples of all his organs were sent to the Alta Vista lab and these

were anlysized by vets in Ottawa, specialists in cancer of animals.

they had never seen a case such as this.

We wath and listen with much concern, as our neighbours and friends

have constant or reoccuring health problems. All very similar and

repetitive in the group of people living in the radius of 2 km from

the

Cantley DMS (dump).

This dump site is all but totally abandoned as far as up keep and

safe

maintenance. Infractions are continuing weekly, and the ordinance is

still not followed for the last few years.

We, the community of Cantley, are not blind. We see all too well what

is being allowed to happen on this property.We want it to STOP. We

want

it to STOP RIGHT NOW. Today!

This taxic environnment cyst is not going away, and to be sure, WE

ARE

NOT GOING TO GO AWAY UNTIL THIS IS SOLVED!

YOU are not doing ENOUGH. It is not enough to sit in an office and

watch as the health and environment go down the toilet.

I am waiting anxiously for the announcement from Ministry office to

say, " we are now taking over the entire responsibility of the DMS

dump

site "

Sue Roth McClelland

1045 Montee de la Source

Cantley Quebec

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It is a shame for a government to let it happen and for soooo long.

Sorry for venting, if you go to message # 82 YOU WILL SEE MY

FRUSTRATIONS AND ACTION THEN.

HAVE A GOOD day and God bless.

Frienship. Guy IPF 03 age 69 and not ready to give up.