RE: Tales of the Urban Explorer: High Elms Mental Hospital
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Just about everywhere I go there's asbestos. It's a peril of my dangerous activity.
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Just about everywhere I go there's asbestos. It's a peril of my dangerous activity.
One of the largest producers of asbestos in the world is Canada. It is of course banned in Canada, but they happily export it, mostly to Asia.
I remember decades ago government grants to homeowners to insulate their houses, the method used was to blow asbestos between the studs. Years later they gave out grants to remove that shit.
It's all banned here, I didn't know it was still being produced!
I left Canada in 2011 - now I find out they did close the last asbestos mines just that year. The union I belonged to had been fighting to close them, but I retired in 2005, so I didn't get the latest news about it. Good to know they came to their senses.
Anyway, they even changed the name of the one-company town of the largest mine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world/americas/asbestos-quebec-canadian-town.html