THOMSON: Toxic air force buildings and a toxic policy of concealment at the Snowbirds base?
https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/thomson-toxic-air-force-buildings-and-a-toxic-policy-of-concealment-at-the-snowbirds-base/59393
If there's a connection between unexplained deaths and illnesses, and buildings at 15 Wing Moose Jaw known to be toxic, this veterans' group aims to expose it
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is a quiet community known for its ties to prohibition-era gangster Al Capone, and as the home of Canada’s famous aerobatics team, The Snowbirds. Unfortunately, it is also where a concerning trend of unexplained illnesses and deaths may be linked to environmental contamination at 15 Wing Moose Jaw.
The Western Standard has recently learned that approximately two years ago, former and current members of the Canadian Armed Forces and civilian federal employees, began to notice that an unusual number of their friends and colleagues were acquiring serious and unexplained illnesses. Some of them had died prematurely, after a short period of poor health.
Suspecting the cases may be connected, they began to investigate, using open-source data, and their personal and professional connections.
The results were alarming, suggesting that at least 50 deaths— and approximately 200 significant illness — had occurred within the relatively small cohort of current and former employees of 15 Wing who had worked in seven specific buildings on the base at one time or another.
The federal government, including the Department of National Defence and the CAF, appears to be well aware of contamination issues on its properties, including both those currently occupied and vacant.
Back in 2005, the Government of Canada initiated a program called, The Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP.) As per the government's website, “The objective of FCSAP is to reduce environmental and human health risks from known federal contaminated sites and associated federal financial liabilities, while focusing on the highest priority sites.”
The plan has created an inventory of federal sites that have been identified where contamination is present. Known as the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory (FCSI) it currently lists 4,980 active sites (includes 2,496 priority sites for remediation,) 1,838 suspected sites and 16,845 closed sites (completed or no action required.)
The buildings which the Moose Jaw employees identified during the course of their investigations, are on that list. Continue…