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...country's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2010. Last June, a study by the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change showed Britain among the most probable nations to meet the targets. Greenhouse gases dropped 6.5% between 1998 and 1999 alone, Environment Ministry officials boast, while toxic CO2 emissions have been cut by 9% between 1990 and 1999. Potentially quadrupling current British wind power, the sites will be home to some 500 turbines expected to generate enough power to supply more than a million homes. "I want Britain to be a leading player in this coming green industrial revolution," Prime...
What has been the impact of these provisions under NAFTA? In 1998, an Ohio-based hazardous waste disposal company won a suit for $20 million against Canada for expropriation of its business due to a Canadian ban on the import of PCBs, a highly toxic coolant used in electrical transformers. The same year, another U.S. corporation filed suit against Canada, claiming a law passed by the Canadian Parliament (which had banned the use of the gasoline additive and potentially harmful neurotoxin MMT) was a “measure tantamount to expropriation.” The Canadian government, hearing that...
This need to put a price on invaluables becomes the sticking point when the topic shifts from grime to toxic waste. The earlier questions—transportation, agency, moral hazard—increase their importance dramatically, but that’s not what’s behind the memo forwards. Instead, the unspoken sentiment appears to be that toxic waste is horrible stuff, and we don’t like to think of it being produced or stored anywhere near people. But it has to be stored somewhere, and although we may not want economic power to influence the distribution...
Whether an exchange should be prohibited or not is in many ways an emotional question. But my guess is that most of the emotional gut reaction to it doesn’t come from the idea of letting other people take our toxic waste. It comes from the realization—and a sickening one at that—that there are people on this earth so desperately poor that they would be willing to live amongst our deadly toxic chemicals for what is to us a relative pittance. And that even if we decide not to let them take...
Don’t get me wrong: there are plenty of arguments against trade in toxic waste, some of which may very well be compelling. I count six of them in this column alone. But rather than engage the question, the protestors who held signs and chanted outside Loeb House have preferred to use the memo as a moral bludgeon, perversely changing the subject to Harvard’s labor policies. I support a living wage, but assuming Summers must atone for his views on toxic waste, why would giving $10.25 an hour to Harvard workers be the proper penance...