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  1. No barrels of Agent Orange have been found at Base Gagetown to date. Former disposal sites. There are five former waste disposal sites at Base Gagetown: the Shirley Road main dump, the drum disposal area, the asbestos dump area, the chemical container disposal area, and the ash disposal site.

  2. Mar 6, 2024 · The Department of National Defence maintains only two barrels of Agent Orange and Agent Purple were tested in 1966 and 1967 and that spraying was limited to seven days over a remote 138-acre area ...

  3. Apr 4, 2024 · There have been similar efforts by veterans in New Zealand and Australia. Ecological harms. Ongoing environmental studies in Southeast Asia have found that the harmful chemicals from Agent Orange most notably embed themselves into sediment, which then infects animals of the region and can endanger the local food chains. Similar phenomena have ...

  4. Mar 4, 2024 · The potential links between health problems and the use of Agent Orange at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown need to be re-evaluated, says a report released in January by the 10-member Gagetown ...

  5. Mar 6, 2024 · A Maine commission has called for a new probe of the historical use of Agent Orange and other herbicides at a New Brunswick military base because it says the data and analysis used in a Canadian report that found most people at or near the base were not at risk for long-term health effects was "incorrect" and "biased."The Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission, created last summer to study ...

  6. May 24, 2018 · The Department of National Defence may have dug up and disposed of barrels containing chemicals at a New Brunswick military base decades ago — but they're not the ones at the centre of a renewed ...

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  8. Nov 15, 2023 · A state commission to study Maine National Guard members' exposure to Agent Orange at the Gagetown Canadian military base got underway on Wednesday. Agent Orange was sprayed on 83 acres at the Gagetown facility in 1966 and 1967. Four years later Maine National Guard members trained there, and have since reported cases of cancer, respiratory ...

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