Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba R i a photo Volcano victim a photographer captures the scene As ignited by Home of Mike Bartlett in a suburb of red hot lava from the Kilauea destroys the several Homes have been destroyed in the welders urge use of safety equipment Edmonton up welder Doug Leng drank milk to coat his stomach hoping to protect himself from but after five heart attacks he is urging fellow trades men to Wear safety became one of Albertas first apprentices at age 16 like his ran a welding business in Edmonton before his lungs Hurt so much he welding is a hazardous Trade and people welding now should be Wear ing the proper he the older welders would drink milk and eat Throat think ing that would Ward off the Leng and other retired welders want to warn younger tradesmen to take reports about the chemical fumes its especially important because there is Little Chance of getting financial compensation if the Industry leaves you unable to denied compensation Leng said he was denied a claim to the workers compensation Board because it was not convinced his heart attacks were related to the decades he spent they figure its not related to work because i didst fold up on the he we claim it is work Leng and several other welders believe their conditions Are being blamed on they hit you with Leng its the first thing they which is absolutely Karl has spent years trying to get compensation for his poor although Hes a his former employers were asked whether he Ever smoked at Paul lost his Appeal a year ago due to a Lack of medical he but his lungs still selection of pm vehicles in Manitoba 1090 Pontiac 6000 its 40 4 Auto steering air Notchback stereo and much our total Price our total Price Sqq Al you got it 1990 sunbird Les 2 fuel rear fit fit cloth radials i mob re6ent Olih on it Ihli Pili m1i1i1 Salm t Only poh1ikc Butch Gumc Bod shop paint me service parti lusts Revenue Canada taxation electronic tax filing information seminars important notice to plumbers renovators regarding approved Universal bundle Bath fixtures importers exporters recognizes Kravco As their approved China acrylic distributor for Manitoba of their Universal bundle it is important for customers to realize that any Universal unite Purchase made elsewhere in Manitoba will not carry this approval plumbing products 550 Century route 90 North 7806057 ugh open saturdays its like biting into a theres always a simmering Burn in my rib compensation Board spokesman Derrick Pieters comment on specific we dont have a specific policy that automatically rejects claims because they May have been a All claims Are decided purely on the medical evidence we research compiled by an instructor at the Northern Alberta Institute of technology in Edmonton outlines the Sid effects of exposure to toxic gases generated during the welding chronic bronchitis is common and two metals used in stainless Nickel and Are believed to cause two local Dave Poudrier and Dave have taken out a newspaper and to help workers who want information on the Gerald who runs professional welding in said welders must de Mand better working this is still a Good Trade to be in but someone has to make sure companies have the proper its like nurses who must work with there Given gloves for pro welders Arent Given any employers said there glad More information is coming to Light sur rounding the Industry but not All workers want to Wear the proper Allan a manager at Oxford machine and welding said his company provides dust masks for breathing and respiratory masks for working in an enclosed very rarely do they want to Wear last year we bought some for a Job and hardly anybody put them Revenue Canada Revenue Canada import taxation Here your Opportunity to find out More about electronic filling of individual income tax returns Revenue taxation is hosting Industry seminars to explain the file process and to describe How your firm can Benefit by participating in 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be Bureau Des inscriptions Ted a 395701 1 3 be Hombre de participants test Taall a 25 Par session Par Nous Vous Dema dons de Vous inscribe be plus Tot Canada Winnipeg free april Ujj igbo Job Ozone decay major scientist says by Jim Detjen Knight Ridder newspapers within the next decade the decay of the earths protective Ozone layer could threaten Public health and Plant life Over the United states regardless of what actions Are now taken to reduce Ozone eating Chemi a Nasa scientist Michael an atmospheric scientist at nasal Goddard Institute for space studies in new said researchers were concerned that massive chunks of Ozone depleted air could begin Drift ing Over the United states and other Northern hemisphere countries be ginning around these massive patches of air roughly the size of Texas Drift South from the Arctic during late Winter and Early Spring and allow Large amounts of damaging ultraviolet radiation to reach highly populated he the increased ultraviolet rays could increase skin affect Plant growth and possibly even dam age life in the Prather it could take several months or More for the atmosphere to recon in a paper published in a prestigious British Prather and Robert also of calculated that even if All Ozone de stroking chemicals were banned by the huge Hole in the Ozone layer that appears Over Antarctica each september and october would not disappear until the Ozone layer is a fragile canopy of 20 to 50 Kilometres above the that screens out harmful ultraviolet radiation from the scientists say manmade Chemi cals containing chlorine and Bro mine have destroyed about two per cent of the Ozone layer worldwide since the greatest damage to the Ozone layer has occurred Over where losses of 50 per cent have been recorded each september and octo when Spring in the Southern hemisphere Large chunks of Ozone depleted air Over Antarctica Drift North to Australia and new researchers have measured temporary increases of 20 per cent in the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching Australia As these patches of air pass australian television stations now report daily ultraviolet readings so citizens know whether to remain inside or for each one per cent loss in the Ozone layer there Are expected to be three to six per cent More cases of skin according to studies by the environmental Protection Agen increased ultraviolet rays Are also expected to cause an increased number of cataracts and immune system damage to crops such As soybeans and destruction of Marine the erosion of the Ozone layer Over the Arctic has been much smaller than Over Prather said scientists were concerned that As the quantities of chlorofluorocarbons halons and other Ozone depleting chemicals increased in the a threshold could be reached in which much More rapid Ozone depletion would occur Over the pesticide Sandwich to kill gulls Halifax up the Canadian wildlife service plans to Slaughter about seagulls on Sable Island in an Effort to save dwindling Tern we want to wipe them seabird biologist Tony lock a half measure wont do workers will place tiny pesticide sandwiches in Gull nests Early next month before terns arrive to set up their said who devised the the sandwiches will be spread with Margarine and a Poison called which kills Birds by shut1 Ting Down their its very said the Biolo we know from humans who died of kidney they simply become Settle Down and go to sleep and environmentalist Deborah Tobin said the pesticide int registered for use in they Are going to do this in one big shot in its just going to be a she lock said the windswept located about 300 Kilometres Southeast of offers Little for ravenous Blac backed and herring gulls to so they prey on Chicks and fewer than one pair of terns in f 10 is producing a they Lay Between two or three eggs and Al most none of them about one million common and Roseate terns used Sable Island As a Breeding ground at the turn of the there Are now than nesting about 10 of which Are the endangered Roseate toxic pollution in 1988 in a reporting i rules for toxics toxic releases to the weight any Industrial Plant that released or More of toxic pollutants in 1988 was required to file a report 1 plants in the Epa lists 332 reportable including both useful chemicals and waste air a billion ib8 27 injection into deep storage Wells billion w 12 land y billion water billion billion worst 1 states released worst Industrial released 1 Louisiana 716 1 Amax magnesium Utah 110 2 Texas 596 2 Tennessee Eastman 3 Ohio 229 3 a tax fibres closed in 1989 34 4 Florida 226 4 triad chemical 5 Indiana 213 5 Eastman Kodak figures Are figures Lor environmental releases exclude transfers to or releases by offsite treatment facilities and municipal Wastewater source Epa a Industrial Plant pollution shocking Washington App american Mills and chem ical plants released billion kilo Grams of toxic chemicals into the environment in including scores of cancer causing the environmental Protection Agency reported More than half the pollutants went into the while the remainder was dumped in surface stored in landfills or injected into under ground Louisiana and with a High concentration of petrochemical were the worst Michigan and Industrial states that Border the great were among the top the figures Are absolutely Shock said representative Gerry is a Minnesota the pollution from nearly factories and plants was nine per cent less than the year but the environmental Agency said the decline May be due to better record the Agency said it use the raw figures to assess the health risks to individuals since the data didst take into account Levels of concentration of what was released and among the chemicals routinely emitted from Industrial sources were known carcinogens such As Dichler methane used As a sol vent and paint stripper benzene and Vinyl while having cancer causing prop the emissions Are Legal and still within current Federal Stan those standards will soon since the clean air Bill now winding through Congress imposes stringent controls on toxic Industrial chemicals and requires companies to use the Best available technology to reduce under current the Agency is required to Deal with each in More than a it has placed controls a Only eight of the hundreds of toxic chemicals Many of the Howe Are subject to local and state i ;