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...Love Canal. The very name of the chemical dumping site has become a symbol of the larger problem of hazardous waste disposal by corporations. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency moved to transform Love Canal from a national skull and crossbones to what it once was, a quiet residential neighborhood near Niagara Falls. The agency also established a new set of rules for dumping industrial wastes that could mean no more Love Canals in the future...
Forty years after the Hooker Chemical Co. used the site for disposal, and four years after residents discovered the toxic effects from seepage of the waste, the EPA has determined that most of the 400 nearby homes are now safe for habitation. "The Love Canal area is ... as safe as other residential areas in industrial towns around the country," announced Dr. Clark Heath of the Department of Health and Human Services. Only those houses within a block and a half of the canal, many of which have already been razed, are still considered dangerous...
Some former Love Canal residents were outraged. "The EPA is as dependable as a wet noodle," said Robert Kott, who moved his wife and five children away from their home near the canal two years ago. Indeed, some members of an independent panel of experts that was asked by the EPA to analyze the data felt that the material made available to them was "of very poor scientific quality." Says Member Steven Aust, who is chairman of the Michigan toxic substance control commission: "I do not see how anyone could conclude with much assurance that the area was habitable...
...expansive sweep of civil engineering, from the pyramids of the Nile to the construction of the Panama Canal, nothing so huge, or costly, as Jubail has ever before been attempted by anyone." Says Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail, whose government has already spent $35 billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception...
...million UDAG grant will fund the redesign of the Lechmere canal in East Cambridge, and a massive development project is designed to bring office and retail space to the Riverfront area. In the Alewife region, where three office complexes have been completed recently, additional office and industrial development is planned. Successful completion of the MBTA Redline extension is crucial for success in Alewife. In Cambridgeport, the major revitalization plans--under the supervision of MIT--have been stalled pending further negotiations with neighborhood residents. Plans for the other areas have already received local approval...