stacks around the Island to be made public.

Shadow Minister of Youth Development, Sport & Recreation Nelson Bascome made the plea as the House of Assembly adjourned for its summer recess on Wednesday night.

He noted that an independent study on vehicle emissions -- which was tabled in the House by Transport Minister Wayne Furbert last week -- showed diesel fuel had been linked to cancer, especially lung cancer, and disorders like bronchitis.

The report was commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation and the Ministry of the Environment from de la Torre Klausemeier Consulting, Austin, Texas.

It revealed that pollution from vehicles was a major health hazard in Bermuda and it indicated that the Island was lagging behind Europe and the US in tackling the problem.

Mr. Bascome said when the Tyne's Bay Incinerator was put in place a promise was made to make sure the air that was emitted from its stack was clean.

And in light of that promise, he continued, he wondered if reports and air quality samples from that stack could be made available to the public.

Mr. Bascome added that he knew the Bermuda Electric Light Company were able to monitor their emissions also and asked for their information to be made public too.

He noted that residents near the Pembroke Dump could smell gaseous odours when the wind blew in a certain direction and he asked if there was a way to gauge the emissions coming from that site.

Mr. Bascome noted several people who had lived around the Pembroke Dump had died from cancer.

He said he was wondering if this had anything to do with either the dump or smoke stack emissions or the fact that the people had lived close by the road.

He asked Government to get reports to the public over the summer and suggested that the Health Department look at areas where people had lived before dying of cancer to see if the environment could have contributed to their contracting the disease.