Lafarge Brookfield Concerns Re Tire Burning: Impact on Shortts Lake and on waterway leading to the Shubie River, Cement Kiln Dust spread on Farmers' Fields, long term implications for health and the environment.

1. Concerns
Burning Tires at
Brookfield Lafarge
Nov. 15, 2017. Nova Scotia Department of the Environment has 60 days to
review a ‘project’ which would allow Lafarge Brookfield to burn 350,000 tires
per year.

10. Shortts Lake

11. Lafarge Brookfield Cement
Plant from the Dam at
Shortts Lake

12. Shortts Lake
Turtle Nesting
Gaspereau Spawning
Eagle Nesting

13. Pond Where Gaspereau
Gather Before Going Up the
Fish Ladder to Spawn.

14. Fish Ladder For Fish to come
from the Shubenacadie River
into Shortts Lake

15. Shubenacadie
River
Lafarge
Brookfield
Green Creek
flows from
Shortts Lake
into the
Shubenacadie
River
Gaspereau Travel From the Bay of Fundy up the Shubenacadie River into Green Creek to Shortts Lake to Spawn Each Spring.
Shortts Lake

16. Shubenacadie
River
Bay of Fundy
The Tiny Gaspereau Return to the Subenacadie. The
Water Going Over the Dam at Shortts Lake is Black With
the Little Gaspereau When They Are Returning.

17. Pollution From Lafarge Enters The Water:
1. From the stack-100 km radius.
2. Fugitive emissions (from transferring Cement
Kiln Dust from the Electrostatic Precipitator,
from Trucks, from dust blowing around.
3. From the Cement Kiln Dust storage acreage
4. From Biosolids/Cement Kiln Dust Mix spread
on Farmer’s Fields

18. Quarry
Cement
Kiln Dust
Green is
Grassed
Over,
Grey is
Open
Shortts Lake

19. The Cement Kiln Dust (CKD) Storage Area. Note the CKD open to the wind.

20. In Heavy Rain,
runoff from the
CKD pile makes its
way to the lake.
Ground water is in
question.

21. % Increase Prediction with Tire Incineration at
Brookfield
• Aluminum 60%
• Arsenic 169%
• Barium 10%
• Cadmuim 115%
• Chromuim 423%
• Copper 136%
• Iron 90%
• Lead 140%
• Manganese 168%
• Mercury 80%
• Nickel 31%
• Selenuim 131%
• Zinc 619%
“Air Emission Assessment for Proposed Tire Co-Combustion, Lafarge Canada Inc, Brookfield, Nova
Scotia Cement Kiln’, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, Jan 2007. Global Tox , Table 2. Estimated
Emission Rates with Tire Co-combustion Lafarge Brookfield.

24. Toxic levels of mercury, arsenic found in fish species in Shortts Lake
http://www.trurodaily.com/news/local/toxic-levels-of-mercury-arsenic-found-in-fish-species-in-shortts-lake-148741/
“
If you are depending on that as a consistent source of food, it might be an issue,” said Jocelyn Kickbush,
regarding the mercury levels found in fish from Shortts Lake.
Kickbush wrote her thesis based on studies conducted in 2015 on tissue samples from gaspereau,
smallmouth bass, chain pickerel and white perch taken from Shortts Lake, near Brookfield, and Morris
Lake, near Dartmouth.
And the results in “many individuals” from all four species from both lakes exceeded the World Health
Organization’s daily tolerable intake limit of 0.0177 mg/kg, and 0.233 mg/kg respectively, Kickbush said.
While the trend between total mercury concentration of fish tissue and the length of fish resulted in a
positive correlation in both lakes, she said the fish from Shortts Lake tended to have higher, total
mercury concentrations.
Although total arsenic concentrations did not significantly vary among fish of the same species between
lakes, she wrote, gaspereau was found to have significantly higher total arsenic concentrations in both
lakes compared to the other three fish species.
“I think the results there are fairly self-explanatory. It just means they are elevated, so that means we
are getting atmospheric deposition, or some sort of localized source into that area, which is causing
this elevation.
http://library2.smu.ca/handle/01/26091#.WhF_90qnHIU
Comparing mercury, arsenic, and selenium in several fish species from two Nova Scotia lakes
Kickbush, Jocelyn Consuelo

25. One Way You Can You Help
Write a letter like this one written by Chief
Lawrence Paul in 2007.
People to take, send or mail your letter to:
1. Honorable Stephen McNeil
PREMIER@novascotia.ca
2. Honourable Iain Rankin
Minister.Environment@novascotia.ca
3. Bill Casey, MP
Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca
4. Larry Harrison, MLA
larryharrisonmla@gmail.com