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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 ...
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 ...
Apr 4, 2024 · People in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and military personnel from America, Australia and New Zealand continue to be affected by exposure to Agent Orange. Given those factors and the longstanding effect it has on the environment, there likely remains a risk for currently serving Canadian military personnel and civilian contractors to be negatively impacted even more than 50 years later.
- Former Disposal Sites
- Agent Orange Investigations at Base Gagetown
- August 2018 Barrel Investigation
- Future Investigations
- 2005-2007 Herbicide Fact-Finding Investigation
- 2006 Dnd-Wide Herbicide Use Project
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. All of these sites were used to dispose of barrels of herbicides, with the exception of the ash disposal site, which was only ever used to dispose o...
Since the 1980s, DND has conducted extensive research into the use and testing of herbicides, including Agent Orange, to better understand the circumstances and effects of their use at Base Gagetown.
In June 2018, a retired CAF member identified a new area of interest near the former Shirley Road dump. Following this site visit, an independent third-party expert, MRS Management Ltd., in a joint venture with Gemtec Consulting Engineers and Scientists Ltd., conducted a thorough investigation of this site in August 2018. The area identified was ab...
The results of the August 2018 investigation match those from previous studies, and confirm that there is no evidence of buried Agent Orange barrels at Base Gagetown. As a result, we have no plans for future activities at this time. The results from this investigation have provided greater certainty about the past use of unregistered herbicides at ...
In 2005, DND, along with Veterans Affairs Canada, Health Canada, and various other departments and agencies, began an exhaustive fact-finding investigation to understand the health and environmental risks associated with the past use of registered and unregistered herbicides at Base Gagetown. Research for this investigation was conducted by highly-...
In 2006, Public Services and Procurement Canada contracted Golder Associates Ltd. to research, organize, and analyze all available information on the use of herbicides at all DND locations across Canada. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether Agent Orange and other unregistered U.S. herbicides were tested at other Canadian Armed...
Mar 4, 2024 · "These results match those from previous investigations, and confirm that this area is not a former barrel disposal site, and that no barrels of Agent Orange have been found at Base Gagetown to ...
Officials say Maine National Guard members who trained in Gagetown, New Brunswick between 1966 and 1967 were exposed to the chemical “Agent Orange.”
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Dec 10, 2023 · Agent Orange was a herbicide used by the U.S. military to control and destroy vegetation in the battlefield during the Vietnam War. In 1966 and 1967, defoliants such as Agent Orange, Agent Purple, and Agent White were tested at Base Gagetown by U.S. officials. The affected sites were in a 33-hectare forest containing both deciduous and ...
