Quebec public health wants smelter’s arsenic emissions cut to 5 times provincial norm
Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette said he will consider Boileau’s recommendations and the emissions cap he plans to place on the smelter will be “much more stringent” than the current level.
Glencore, the multinational mining company that owns the smelter, said in a statement after Boileau’s news conference that it was aware of the recommendations. The new recommendation would result in a fourfold reduction in the risk of lung cancer among people living in the area around the smelter, “a level considered acceptable in similar North American settings,” the institute said Wednesday.
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