Image via WikipediaIn a previous posting we discussed that the Quebec government had decided to back the loan that would reopen the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos Canada. This loan would allow the mine to begin mining asbestos again and exporting it to countries like India. Now in the following article “Zimbabwe in bid to revive asbestos mines” in the English version of the People’s Daily Online (China), we find out that Zimbabwe intends on doing the same thing for two of their mines (Shabanie and Mashava). These mines used to produce about 180,000 tons of asbestos fibers per year. According to this article, Zimbabwe has been spending millions of dollars on fiber imports from Russia and Brazil. Seems to me, that Zimbabwe is tired of importing asbestos when they could be mining it.
Related articles
- Quebec Government Decides to Back Loan to Restart Asbestos Mine (futureenv.blogspot.com)
- Canada labeled ‘immoral asbestos pusher’ as Harper visits Quebec mining town (theglobeandmail.com)
- Harper rejects export ban on asbestos (canada.com)
- Cancer society ‘disappointed’ with Quebec asbestos expansion (canada.com)
- Que. hands $7.5M to asbestos mine (cbc.ca)
- Duceppe wades into asbestos mining debate (cbc.ca)
- Air has high asbestos levels at Que. worksites: study (cbc.ca)
- Air at many Quebec worksites high in asbestos levels: study (theglobeandmail.com)
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