Terrible nouvelle: il y a un projet de construction d'un nouveau et
énorme laboratoire Covance. Participons le plus possible à cette
campagne pour que l'administration où doit se trouver le nouveau
centre comprenne qu'il ne faut pas l'accepter!
Rappel-plusieurs liens sur la campagne Covance:
http://www.borta.org/sites.php3?id_rubrique=29
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URGENT Covance a programmé la construction d'un nouvel enfer!
Covance prévoit de construire leur plus grand laboratoire.
Le projet est pour Chandler aux USA, où Covance a présenté un projet
pour un site d'env. 122 km carrés!!
La décision n'a pas encore été prise et le dernier mot revient à un
petit nombre de personnes, le Conseil communal de Chandler.
Il est absolument nécessaire que ces personnes reçoivent de nombreuses
et courtoises demandes de refuser le permis de construire à Covance.
(surtout pas d'insultes, ils n'en peuvent rien!)
Un comité citoyen est déjà né, dont le site est: http://savechandler.org.
Il est possible de signer aussi une pétition à cette adresse:
http://www.petitiononline.com/85244/petition-sign.html
Et également d'écrire un e-mail courtois au conseil citoyen.
Voici les adresses:
boyd.dunn@chandleraz.gov, phill.westbrooks@chandleraz.gov,
bob.caccamo@chandleraz.gov, lowell.huggins@chandleraz.gov,
matt.orlando@chandleraz.gov, martin.sepulveda@chandleraz.gov,
donna.wallace@chandleraz.gov, city.manager@ci.chandler.az.us,
mark.pentz@chandler.gov, patrick.mcdermott@ci.chandler.az.us,
rich.dlugas@ci.chandler.az.us, marian.stanley@ci.chandler.az.us,
leah.powell@ci.chandler.az.us, harry.paxton@chandleraz.gov,
christine.mackay@chandleraz.gov, anne.dancoff@chandleraz.gov,
jennifer.morrison@chandleraz.gov, richard.mulligan@chandleraz.gov,
kimberly.janes@chandleraz.gov, jeanne.bosarge@chandleraz.gov,
heather.figueroa@chandleraz.gov, anne.dancoff@chandleraz.gov,
Stefanie.Garcia@chandleraz.gov, judy.ramos@chandler.gov,
marla.paddock@chandler.gov, nachie.marques@chandler.gov
mark.eynatten@chandler.gov, info@chandlercenter.org,
katrina.mueller@ci.chandler.az.us, webmaster@chandlerlibrary.org,
pat.walker@chandler.gov, purchasing@chandleraz.gov, doug.ballard@chandler.gov,
hank.pluster@chandleraz.gov, avid.delatorre@chandleraz.gov,
sam.andrea@chandleraz.gov, kim.gehrke@chandleraz.gov,
patrick.tyrrell@chandleraz.gov, tresa.mcdonald@chandleraz.gov,
flor.figueroa@chandleraz.gov, dawn.fiscus@chandleraz.gov,
jessica.ponzio@chandleraz.gov, pam.large@chandleraz.gov,
bryan.patterson@chandler.gov, jason.tiller@chandleraz.gov,
dave.siegel@chandleraz.gov, jobs@chandleraz.gov, brenda.brown@chandleraz.gov,
kris.sherman@chandleraz.gov, mark.franzen@chandleraz.gov,
jane.poston@chandleraz.gov, citizen-assistance@chandleraz.gov
Lettre-type (proposée par la campagne internationale contre covance)
Dear Sir / Madam, City of Chandler Council,
I was recently informed about Covance's application to build a new animal
laboratory in Chandler. I was disgusted about this and wish for the plans to be
turned down.
Recently, the State of California refused Covance planning permission to build a
new site there - Are Chandler's/Arizona's ethics substandard compared to
California's?
Covance have been exposed four times for animal cruelty and abuse at their sites
across the world, most recently in Vienna, Virginia. Leading primatologist, Jane
Goodall condemned Covance's treatment of primates being used in cruel
experiments. The Chandler lab is planned to be the largest Covance testing
facility in the world. Large amount of animals are to be used in the new
laboratory which will encourage unscrupulous dealers who pick up stray animals
to sell to Covance. The vast majority of primates used in research are captured
in the wild and flown across the world, mainly from the island of Mauritius. In
the past primates have been found frozen to death after long flights in Winter
months, which were destined for experimentation within a Covance laboratory.
Other monkeys have been discovered at the airports to have suffocated to death
in transit.
On top of this, there is a large risk to the public and workers' health. Covance
were the centre of a major scandal involving staff contracting Ebola virus after
primates captured in the wild were used in experiments. The U.S. Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention intervened to eradicate the infected animals,
burn the complex down, and avoided a potentially disastrous outbreak.
Afterwards, in February 1990, a number of infected monkeys were shipped to
Covance facilities in both Virginia and Texas. This strain was also found to be
airborne. More Reston ebolavirus infected monkeys were discovered in 1992 in
Sienna, Italy and at the Texas Covance facility again in March 1996. Imagine the
threat to the residents of Chandler if the same happened again, after all the
vast majority of primates used in research are captured in the wild. What are
Covance?s plans for clinical waste disposal? At their site in Harrogate, UK, an
incinerator used to be operated to dispose of dead animals and
hazardous waste. The incinerator is no-longer used after the local council and
Covance received complaints regarding ash and fall-out from the incinerators
landing on their houses and cars. It now has to be transported over 16 miles in
gigantic top-heavy lorries to an industrial incinerator. If the same happened in
Chandler, what would happen if a lorry crashed? The dangerous waste may be
strewn across the roads and cause major disruption to the already busy roads.
Currently, at other Covance facilities, video footage shows cages being flushed
with high-power hoses into drains. If this happens in the new laboratory, all
the potentially hazardous waste will be washed into Chandler's sewerage system.
As is evidenced by another facility's sordid record of managing toxic materials,
the potential of toxic contamination exists.
Covance claim that the originally proposed 100,000 sq. foot laboratory would
employ apx. 400 workers. It has now been revealed that the actual planned space
the facility will use it 400,000 sq foot, four times as big as originally
stated. Chandler?s roads are currently 'pushed to the limit' with the current
number of cars. Is there really enough room to allow a potential of up to over
one thousand extra vehicles on the roads, not counting the deliveries that
Covance will need to be able to function? There will have to be hundreds of
thousands of dollars spent on expanding the road systems, which could be spent
on other things needed in the local community, or may leave the City of Chandler
Council in debt.
It is claimed that the new lab facilities will be used for scientific research
and the development of drugs. In the UK, Covance tested "Splenda" artificial
sweetener on beagles, primates and pregnant rabbits. Other firms Covance test on
behalf of produce products including cosmetics, chemicals, paints, dyes,
foodstuffs, sweeteners and more. Animal research is not reliable scientifically.
Hundreds of doctors and scientists are against animal research for one reason -
that it is not reliable. Covance refused to take part in a scientific debate in
the UK, where they were offered the chance to let their views of animal testing
be voiced by THEIR workers, which would be countered by those against what they
do for scientific reasons and vice-versa. Look at the recent case of Vioxx,
developed by Covance client Merck. Thousands of Americans were killed and left
maimed due to the drug, which was tested on animals.
I therefore believe that it is in the public interest that Covance are not given
permission to build a new laboratory in Chandler.
Yours Sincerely,
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MERCI A TOUS! FAITES PASSER!
