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Parents of students at Notre-Drame-de-Protection elementary school are decrying the administration's lack of transparency about their children's exposure to arsenic dust.
The results of tests conducted on soil around Notre-Dame de Protection elementary school showed an arsenic rate of 4130 milligrams per kilogram - 137 times the limit for the presence of arsenic in soil around residential properties in Quebec.
While some residents of the Notre-Dame neighbourhood see it as a chance to leave a sector where arsenic emissions from the Horne copper smelter are associated to a higher risk of cancer, others greet the impending move with sadness and anguish.
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. - An announcement this week that some 200 families would be relocated from a Rouyn-Noranda neighbourhood contaminated by smelter pollution was met with anxiety and concern for those who will be moved out.