Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Jurty 1 1997 Yellowknife an Appeal court has upheld the Mur def conviction and sen tence of Roger a Gold Miner found guilty of setting a Tomb that killed other miners who crossed a it line during a bitter strikes in in a ruling released a panel of the Northwest territories court of Appeal said War rens confession was voluntary and was properly admitted at his trial when a jury convicted him of degree murder of nine e Are firmly of the belief that the Learned trial judge to Beetty dismissed Warrens charter complaints and properly admitted the confession As a voluntary the Appeal panel murder conviction upheld for nine miners deaths Ean awns m or a u or Ulas chief culprit in breast cancer Davis addresses conference 9 348 395 442 275 321 364 228 276 80 per cent of cases tied to ecology mishaps Canadian press delegates to the world conference on breast cancer heard stories Ter Day of whales with misshapen and swollen oysters with can Cerous organs and How the Only Way to win the War against breast cancer is to combat environmental one of the most emotional pleas for attacking environmental which Are said to account for up to 80 per cent of breast cancer came from Sandra a Boston biologist who overcame her own can which she said was caused by polluted drinking water in her Illinois Home hazards everything from Power lines to x Ray machines to chemicals in cleaning pesticides and herbicides contribute to the breakdown of healthy which result in them mutating and Lead to noted Ste author of the new Book Liv ing which ties ecological hazards to increasing rates of Many governments that allow companies to continue to use chemicals and make hazardous products Are committing premeditated random Stein Graber said in a luncheon speech before about 600 delegates at Queens Steingraber and other speakers said Only five to seven per cent of breast cancer is result of mean ing outside forces Are causing the Epi Demic that annually kills one million women pegs its contribution to the cancer problem at a much lower under 10 per cent of All can in one of the most controversial claims that electromagnetic Fields contribute to childhood cancer was debunked in a report in this months new England journal of med in the backed by the National cancer 638 Ameri can children with leukaemia and 620 children in a control group were assessed along with the magnetic Field Levels which come from everything from hairdryers to Plugin alarm clocks in their chemicals but researchers attending the con Ference in this Eastern Ontario City said other reports Back the these types of they Arent taken As seriously because Many scientists involved in Large scale projects Are funded by businesses in the Lucra Tive mining and Industrial the Economy is dependent on chemical Steingraber As a she babies Are exposed to grass pesticides by crawl ing around on homeowners Are washing chemicals from cleaning solutions Down their drains and pet owners put chemical containing Flea collars around their pets French researcher Annie Sasco also blamed traditional Medicine for contributing to cancers by overusing radiation methods such As traditional Medicine disputes this saying its unfounded and mammography special breast rays is the Best tool for catching cancers Early and saving fallout Sasco also presented figures show ing rates of breast cancer Are highest in areas where lakes Are most theres More pollution from military fallout and where mammography is More commonly Debra Davis of the world resources Institute in Washington detailed the deformities among animals in the most polluted areas of the including Florida and Lawrence she urged government to More heavily tax businesses that make potentially dangerous products than companies making environmentally Friendly prod As it so called Green cleaners and other products Are much More expensive than Standard Steingraber also urged to use Chemi Cakreue Green stick with organic drink Puri fied water and Check ingredients on under rights know legislation in various parts of Canada and the United Consumers can also find out what Tow emissions Are being put into their such As from smokestacks and whats being dumped into Rivers and both sides of the environmental debate will be taken into account when conference organizers assemble a global action expected to be released in the coming to eradicate breast cancer the conference ends today with an ;