BID TO BLOCK ASBESTOS TRADE THWARTED BY CANADA
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA, with Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, has successfully scuppered plans to place chrysotile asbestos on the 'watch list' of the United Nations' Rotterdam Convention, which would have allowed importing countries to insist on prior consent before admitting any cargoes. Environmentalists wanted the latest conference of the parties to the convention, in Geneva, Switzerland, to list chrysotile, after years of debate, but this required consensus and Canada declared: "At this time [it] does not support the listing of chrysotile ...
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