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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: stribe30 who wrote (130734)1/24/2001 11:44:10 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH  Read Replies (1) of 1571928
 
Watson.. go back to Sudbury sometime and you'll see quite a different city and area.. the environmental reclamation of that area has been quite remarkable.

Yes....I've been told that by others as well. I definitely need to revisit the area. However, I wonder how much of the renaissance is due to the fact that nickel ore is now mined (by INCO) much more economically from surface mines in (I think) northern Manitoba. That may also be part of the cause. I wonder though about the impact to the environment in Manitoba. Not many people to complain up there.

and the fact of the matter is and was that the large majority of the acid rain was coming from coal smelter plants in the Ohio Valley and the lower Mississipi which had no environmental standards on them and everything headed north and east dumping it on Ontario. Quebec, and a lot of the Northeast states.

Yes.... certainly coal fired power plants in the mid west were and still are great contributors to acid rain in Ontario/Quebec and the Northeast. The Clean Air Act allowed grandfather clauses to existing plants negating the need to adopt expensive scrubbing equipment. However, these clauses only were valid if the plant only did normal type maintenance operations on existing equipment and became void if the plant did any substantial upgrades. The EPA has been finding that a lot of these existing plants have been doing extensive equipment upgrades all the while calling it routine maintenance. The EPA has successfully sued a number of power companies forcing them to add the appropriate scrubbing equipment. Good work by the EPA.

THE WATSONYOUTH
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