The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that people spend 90% of their time indoors, but that indoor air quality can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air. Indoor air pollution can threaten the health — and the lives — of everyone in your family. The single most effective way to keep the air [...]
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Toronto Grow-ops Don’t Discriminate
It could be the cheapest house on the street, an expensive house in a suburban housing development or a regular home in a lower-end neighborhood. The reality is that grow-ops can be found anywhere, and they hide in plain sight. In 2005, there were an estimated 10,000 grow-ops in Toronto alone and approximately 50,000 in [...]
Spotting Grow-Ops in Toronto and Ontario
No one can say that Canada’s criminals aren’t creative: grow-ops have been busted in Canadian cities including the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in unique locations in recent years. In September, a grow-op was found in an abandoned Saskatchewan movie theatre. In November, a GTA condominium was found to have a massive grow operation on the [...]
It’s the Law
Your real estate agent is required to tell you if a home you’re interested in was a known grow-op. If this is the case, undergoing a mold inspection can be the difference between choosing the right home and choosing the wrong one and becoming seriously ill. A home inspection will not catch the hidden mold [...]
The amount of mold-infested former grow-ops in the GTA is increasing
There has been a recent National Post article that reported Toronto, and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), is experiencing a serious grow-op epidemic. One of the most common dangers associated with grow-ops and former grow-op homes are mold, and more specifically, toxic black mold. Toxic black mold belongs to the Stachybotrys family. On a small [...]
Marijuana Grow Operations
WHAT IS A MARIJUANA GROW OP? A marijuana (marihuana) grow operation, commonly referred to as a “grow op”, is a building or a house that has been altered to accommodate equipment for growing numerous marijuana plants. The “grow op” may be organic or hydroponic in nature, and usually includes processing and packaging for sale and [...]
Marijuana Grow-ops
Cannabis is the most commonly used illegal drug in New Brunswick. In recent years there has been an increase in both indoor and outdoor grow operations (grow ops). These grow ops pose an enormous threat to the health and safety of our citizens. Indoor Grow Ops: Danger to Public Health and Safety Homes used to [...]
Marijuana grow-ops booby trapped
New Brunswick conservation officers learned this week in Moncton that one of the hazards of stumbling across marijuana grow operations in the wild are booby traps. Const. Kevin Jones, of the RCMP’s Marijuana Enforcement Team, showed them pictures of rusty steel traps, some the size of dinner plates. “These were seized last year in New [...]
Ontario Mariujuana Grow-ops
Doctor Ray Copes, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, recently gave a seminar detailing the dangers associated with Grow-Ops and, more specifically, re mediated Grow-Op homes, or former Grow-Op homes that have been seized and re purposed. It’s fairly simple for us to understand the immediate [...]
National Remediation Strategy Urged for Marijuana Grow Ops
Canada needs to develop a remediation standard for dealing with houses that have been used as marijuana grow operations, says a new report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC). An increasing number of grow ops are being discovered across the country, leaving mortgage lenders and sometimes unsuspecting new homeowners with dangerously contaminated homes. “The [...]
