Chrysotile asbestos is not being added to a list of dangerous substances after a lack of consensus at an international meeting in Rome this week, according to the federal Natural Resources Department.

Supporting asbestos fits with that theme. Meanwhile, many in Asbestos, a town of 7,000 people 180 kilometres east of Montreal, feel they are under siege.

Economic and political interests are trumping science by threatening the federal government's release of a study of the health hazards of chrysotile asbestos, says the British chair of an expert panel ...

References to chrysotile asbestos, once a significant export for Quebec, as a less dangerous form of the mineral have been removed from the Health Canada website.

Government officials from 120 countries will meet in Rome next week (Oct. 27 to 31) to decide whether chrysotile asbestos should be added to a list of 39 hazardous substances under the Rotterdam ...

A consortium in Asbestos is in negotiations with the Quebec government for a $58-million loan guarantee to open an underground mine at the Jeffrey Mine and export the mineral to developing countries.

2005 Chrysotile asbestos is banned throughout the European Union. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees announces asbestos will no longer be used in UNHCR projects.

MONTREAL, March 29, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - The Chrysotile Institute was created in 1984 by the governments of Canada and Quebec, together with mining companies and workers and their unions, to ...

A major 40-year study on asbestos safety completed by a group of scientists at McGill University is flawed, lacks transparency and contains manipulated data says Dr. David Egilman, a professor at ...

The industry is paltry; exports in 2011 amounted to just $41-million, or 0.07% of Quebec’s total. Even in the town of Asbestos, it employs an insignificant fraction of the population.