NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA –
APRIL 2006 – CLASS A N-VIRO SEWAGE SLUDGE – VICTIMS SUFFER ODORS, RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS,
BURNING EYES, BURNING SKIN, BURNING SINUSES AND LUNGS
EXCERPTS FROM Sludgewatch Report – Maureen Reilly, Ontario, Canada
Subject: Sludge Watch ==> Thallium contaminated N-Viro sludge - another misery to beset rural Nova
Scotia
Dear Mr Younger (Halifax municipal council)
Below is a document where N-Viro explains that they are moving to burning their sludge/cement kiln dust materials
because there is a declining market for sludge based 'fertilizer'. It also explains that they are experimenting with
burning their sludge mix in Lafarge cement kilns.
The farmers of Nova Scotia have already said they don't want to take this Lafarge thallium contaminated N-Viro
ammendement on their farms. The thallium contamination comes from the thallium contaminated cement
kiln dust that comes from Lafarge's Brookfield plant in Nova Scotia.
“ The toluene was skimmed off the top of the contaminated lagoon and the neighbours watched it go to a
hazmat facility flanked by outrider vehicles with flashing lights. The farm pretends to turn the sludge (which
by now is as thick as concrete slurry at the bottom of the lagoon) into some kind of 'treated' material by dumping in
lime fines and trying to 'stir' the thick peanut butter type mixture. More neighbor illness ensues as the hazmat alkaline
lime dust is wind carried over the neighboring homes. Burning eyes, burning skin, burning sinuses and lungs.
“The rest of the lagoon is land applied. More illness.”
” The neighbors are gagging, having respiratory problems, and flee their homes from the smell, when their
Federal Member of Parliament, Bill Casey, shows up. That is who helped them convince Halifax to pay to remove
their sludge from these open air leaky lagoons. But it was very hard to find any facility to take it. At one point it was
even going to be trucked thousands of miles all the way to waste facilities in Ontario.”