In 1989 ATV evening news covered a story about finding of chrystoline asbestos, it was stated by reporter Janice Landry that there were 500 people working in the Ralston Building and that those she spoke with were scared to go public. Then the story was never revisited again. PCB Alert Doctor J Kirkbride Director of Occupational Health Unit Medical Service Branch was informed about Leaking Ballast in Ralston Building. These results suggest that oil leaking from the ballast contained a significantly higher concentration of PCB's than was indicated in the laboratory report from the Ocean Chem group. Because of perchloric acid's extremely corrosive physical properties and its tendency to react violently with many oxidizable substances it is among the most hazardous substances found in the laboratory and should be used and stored with extreme.
Perchloric acid is very corrosive to all living tissue.
It can cause severe burns on contact with eyes, skin, and mucous membranes and is a severe irritant. I have listed only three very dangerous products which are well documented by Government Inspectors and property management personnel employed by the Government of Canada, who have filed in their reports on the Ralston Building. Hundreds of our citizens here in Nova Scotia are suffering because our Government is covering up their own environmental disaster. The human cost is high and these once healthy employable human resources are now let on their own, to not only struggle with their health problem, but also find themselves in financial ruin. Government officials who knowingly covered up the many violation at the Ralston Building have made the lives of some co-workers very miserable.