Wednesday, 02 September 2015 12:49

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Written by Rural News Group

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Your old mate has heard about framing a question to get the answer you want, but reckons environmental campaigners down south have taken this a step further.

They have been claiming that South Canterbury’s Lake Opuha is the subject of chemical contamination and have been pestering Environment Canterbury (ECan) to do tests for DDT. However, the regional authority says campaigner Allan Campbell told an ECan official the banned pesticide DDT had been added to one of several samples the group had tested for chemicals. Apparently the group added the toxic chemical “to check the effectiveness of the laboratory’s testing”. Campbell said the group suspected the lake bed was contaminated and “their test results support our findings.

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