INVESTOR STAYS FIRM ON ASBESTOS DEAL, DESPITE CONTROVERSY
November 1st, 2010
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
CANADA and India-based businessman Baljit Chadha, president of international trade and marketing firm Balcorp Ltd., is standing behind his decision to invest in the controversial underground Jeffrey Mine asbestos expansion project according to his senior spokesman Guy Versailles. He told Industrial Minerals that all of Balcorp's clients know how to handle the asbestos they import safely.
For the past 15 years, Chadha has been buying chrysotile asbestos from the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Québec (170 kilometres east of Montréal), selling it to ...
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