Report: Unregulated incinerators in Arctic Canada pose toxic threat

According to The Canadian Press (via CBC News), a federal research project conducted across Arctic Canada has found high levels of toxic, bio-accumulative and persistent dioxins and furans in lake sediments near development sites without modern incinerators. The study blames a regulatory loophole that allows industrial incinerators to go unregulated, and warns that as resource development increases in the region, the problem will get worse if nothing is done. Read much, much, much more, here.