37.) "Toxic Time Bomb" documentary recalls Elmira's 'dramatic' role in producing Agent Orange." News article DATED august.16, 2020. ( 2 min. Read )

 This news article is from: the record.com, title: "Documentary recalls Elmira's "dramatic' role in producing Agent Orange." By Leah Gerber, local journalism initiative reporter, sunday, AUGUST 16, 2020.

ELMIRA- Ron Harpelle says there are over 22,000 toxic sites in canada, but the one in Elmira happens to be very dramatic.

Harpelle and Kathy Saxberg are filmmakers from Thunder Bay with a production company called "Sheba Films". This documentary, "Toxic Time Bomb" is about Elmira's notorious Uniroyal debacle: the irresponsible disposal of chemical waste into Canagagigue Creek.

The waste was produced for making Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide containing dioxin that was sprayed in Vietnam during the Vietnam war to clear foliage.

Along with Agent Orange, the plant also made DDT, NDMA and other harmful, cancer- and deformation - causing chemicals from 1948 to 1970.

The documentary received its premiere earlier this month at a live stream Vietnamese - French film festival within a larger arts and discussion event, bringing attention to the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war. The event is also focusing on the continuing suffering and negative health effects still happening today.

"If you ask the average Canadian, they have no idea of our role. They think the Vietnam War was someone else's war. We did participate because we manufactured Agent Orange,"  said Harpelle. "There is a Canadian connection and Canadians should be aware of it."

As a result, Elmira's aquifer, the source of it's drinking water, was poison and rendered undrinkable. Elmira's waters is now piped in from Waterloo. The Canagagigue creek, which drains into the Grand River, was also poisoned.

"Toxic Time Bomb" is also a documentary about the decades - long struggle of activists in the area to advocate for the cleanup of the chemicals, said Saxberg.

"Thirty years they've been advocating. It's a full-time job," said Harpelle. "Really it's a film about those people and their dedication. Everyone should celebrate them for their work."

The film took 18 months to complete. The filmmakers hope it brings attention to a past wrong that still hasn't been made right: clean up of Canagagigue Creek and the aquifer is still on going.

The event at which it was premiered, called  "Journees des 9 et 10 aout", was livestreamed on the anniversary of the first spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam on August 10th, 1961. It was hosted by "CollectifVietnam Dioxine", a French organization raising awareness about the devastating, and long-term effects of the use of Agent Orange.

The event was a coming together of French and Vietnamese performances and films to raise awareness about the issue and raise money to help with legal fees and lawsuits against the multinational companies that manufacture the chemicals.

Over 49 million liters of Agent Orange was dumped on the Vietnamese landscape throughout the Vietnamese war. This has been linked to increase birth defect, particularly spinal bifida, that continue today in Vietnam.

End of news article.

(there are plenty of articles about Agent Orange contamination in Elmira, like this one, before 2021. As you can see, it is nothing new.)

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