Officials have blocked the opening of the $7.9 million national park expansion, which was completed last year, until the ...

As you know, acoustic ceilings that were installed from the 1950s through early 1980s typically contain asbestos. When this material is intact, it is not regarded as a significant health hazard ...

Colleen Grell, the EPA’s on-site coordinator, said the bricks and mortar being removed from the chimney will be tested to determine whether they are contaminated with the asbestos and lead that ...

“The dangers of asbestos are well known and recognised, not least by those working on the project.” ENGIE is containing asbestos in an Environment Protection Authority licensed on-site landfill cell, ...

“All of the chimneys contain steel and brickwork with virtually no asbestos in the chimneys themselves, but there is asbestos in the base which is still intact so then we go in at the end and remove ...

Another smokestack, the 72-year-old “recovery boiler chimney,” still stands at the former Sappi Paper Mill site. Crews will remove asbestos paint prior to demolition.

Asbestos in each chimney stack was also inaccessible as it had been poured in-situ of the concrete when they were built in the early 1960s. While the ratio was considered a very low risk, the ...