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There were several dozen aftershocks after the 12:42 p.m. quake, the largest of which measured 4.9, said seismologist John Cassidy of Natural Resources Canada. Read more: www.theprovince.com...
After Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this country.
In fact, there was reason to worry. Health Canada detected large spikes in radioactive material from Fukushima in Canadian air in March and April at monitoring stations across the country.
On March 18, seven days after an earthquake and tsunami triggered eventual nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, the first radioactive material wafted over the Victoria suburb of Sidney on Vancouver Island.
For 22 days, a Health Canada monitoring station in Sidney detected iodine-131 levels in the air that were up to 300 times above the normal background levels. Radioactive iodine levels shot up as high as nearly 1,000 times background levels in the air at Resolute Bay, Nunavut.
Meanwhile, government officials claimed there was nothing to worry about. “The quantities of radioactive materials reaching Canada as a result of the Japanese nuclear incident are very small and do not pose any health risk to Canadians,” Health Canada says on its website. “The very slight increases in radiation across the country have been smaller than the normal day-to-day fluctuations from background radiation.”
In fact, Health Canada’s own data shows this isn’t true. The iodine-131 level in the air in Sidney peaked at 3.6 millibecquerels per cubic metre on March 20. That’s more than 300 times higher than the background level, which is 0.01 or fewer millibecquerels per cubic metre.
“There have been massive radiation spikes in Canada because of Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
“The authorities don’t want people to have an understanding of this. The government of Canada tends to pooh-pooh the dangers of nuclear power because it is a promoter of nuclear energy and uranium sales.”
Originally posted by dreamfox1
It means something is up and they don't want the public to know yet.
Originally posted by BobAthome
reply to post by Frank Dinkle
earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...
way too go,,
it's broke now,,
seriously,, broke while i was watching it,,
Originally posted by dreamfox1
It means something is up and they don't want the public to know yet.
But if the quakes are small enough they will just ignore it too.
Originally posted by SheeplFlavoredAgain
IF there is a conspiracy, isn't it a silly one? Don't people expect some small aftershocks after a sizable quake. I would think they would be reassuring that the event had proceeded normally. A coverup of a normal process doesn't make any sense. There must be some other reason the aftershocks aren't being recorded.
Of course a similar discussion came up in the wake of the Mineral, VA quake and some feeling tremors and aftershocks were being underreported. Who knows? Not I.