Category: Northport Project

Teck clean-up effort inadequate?

Colville Tribes unhappy with Canadian mining company’s cleanup efforts Tribe: Lake Roosevelt pollution study is inadequate, EPA hasn’t done its job By K.C. Mehaffey World staff writer Friday, May 13, 2011 World file photo/Mike Bonnicksen Teck Cominco Ltd.’s smelter at Trail, B.C., in 2003. NESPELEM — Five years after a Canadian mining smelter agreed in a... Continue Reading →

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Vote for The Northport Project as Visionary Ideas for Health & Environmental Research

Please go to http://strategicplan.niehs.nih.gov/a/dtd/The-Northport-Project/120537-12617 and vote for The Northport Project as the top visionary idea for researching health issues linked to environmental toxins.  The Projects suggests free annual screenings for Northport residents - these screenings would assist in early detection of the cancers and diseases that are being found, most of which have no symptoms.  Early detection is... Continue Reading →

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Northport WA Colitis/Crohn’s Study – Focus on Smelter Pollution – Spokesman Examiner (Feb 2011)

Study tracks reasons behind high rate of illness near Northport Focus is area downstream from B.C. smelter Dan Pelle photo Gail Leaden was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, as was her friend on the right in the photograph. Both women used to live in Northport, Wash. Some suspect that emissions from a Trail, B.C., smelter contributed to their... Continue Reading →

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The Northport Project

I am often approached by people inquiring about my research on the Northport Project.  Although hundreds have said such kind things and been such a help, many are somewhat less than “kind”, having decided that I must be looking to financially gain something from my work. Therefore, just to set the record straight to those who may... Continue Reading →

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