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From: TimF	3/17/2008 9:05:42 PM
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a thing I did not know this morning / government is the enemy p. 203 of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: The case of Love Canal, a notorious waste dump, illustrates this point. As long as Hooker Chemical Company owned the Love Canal waste site, it was designed, maintained, and operated … in a way that met even the Environmental Protection Agency Standards…The coporation wanted to avoid any damaging leaks, for which it would have to pay. Only when the waste site was taken over by local government - under threat of eminent domain, for the cost of one dollar, and in spite of warning by Hooker about the chemicals - was the site mistreated in ways that led to chemical leakage. The government decision makers lacked personal or corporate liability for their decisions. They built a school on part of the site, removed part of the protective clay cap to use as fill dirt for another school site, and sold off the remaining part of the Love Canal site to a developer with out warning him of the dangers as Hooker had warned thm. The local government also punched holes in the impermeable clay walls to build water linea and a highway. This allowed the toxic wastes to escape when rainwater, no longer kept out by the partially removed clay cap, washed them through the gaps created in the walls. tjic.com Superfund wouldn’t have saved Love Canal lee.org -------------------

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