Toxic Legacy

Toxic Legacy is a Canadian documentary film that was produced by Susan Teskey for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was broadcast on the CBC and Discovery Times on September 5, 2006. The film deals with the toxic legacy of the Ground Zero dust following the September 11 attacks in 2001 upon the World Trade Center.[2][3]

Toxic Legacy
Produced bySusan Teskey
Production
company
Release date
  • September 5, 2006 (2006-09-05)
CountryCanada

It addresses the U.S. government's minimization of local health risks in the vicinity of Ground Zero site of the World Trade Center. It also addressed the praise of the first responders and the deleterious health effects thousands of these workers have experienced since their cleanup of the World Trade Center site.

9/11 Toxic Legacy won the 2007 Canada Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary in Science and Medicine.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Broadcaster Magazine". Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  2. "9/11: the toxic legacy of the World Trade Center attacks". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  3. "Toxic dust legacy of 9/11 plagues thousands of people". BBC News. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  4. "2007 Canada's Golden Sheaf Award" (PDF). Yorkton Film Festival. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2021-03-26.


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