Bad Water, Good Politics

garym — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:19:10 -0400

Some further update news on this saga, Mayor Gilbert is pushing the feds for answers, and let this be a lesson in karmic law for those planning sneaky moves: You just never know WHO is going to someday end up in a position of power.

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Bad Water, Bad Research: Radziminski vs Wiarton Chlorine-Dioxide Disinformation

garym — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:11:02 -0400

And speaking of under-reported stories from the south peninsula, here's the latest chapter in a long-running tale of intrigue, some news out of the U of T Student Union on Chris Radziminski and his struggle to get to the bottom of the disinformation published in the 2000 Wiarton waterworks chlorine-dioxide study, and how it happened that his paper should get usurped and edited into a glowing endorsement completely omitting all the dire and serious health-risks warnings:

Thirty-year-old Chris Radziminski, who conducted his own chlorine-dioxide, water-treatment study in Toronto, Ottawa and Indiana from 1998 to 2000 as his thesis for a Master of Applied Science degree at U of T, contends that the Drinking Water Research Group ... failed to acknowledge complaints from residents in Wiarton ...

A survey, requested by Wiarton's town council to address residents' concerns and conducted following the 2000 experiment revealed reports of damaged laundered clothes, a "bleachy" smell and "an odd taste" to the water treated by ERCO's chlorine-dioxide disinfectant.

"With all the water troubles happening in Walkerton, you'd think [Wiarton] would inform their tax-paying residents that they're doing something pretty significant to their water," wrote one survey respondent...

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Bad Water, Good Politics

Bad Water, Bad Research: Radziminski vs Wiarton Chlorine-Dioxide Disinformation