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Nick
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 15 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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You need to understand that most big business has nothing to do with mission statements. Their responsibility is to make money. They'll try to stay within the law, but if they can't, or it's cheap enough not to, they will budget around it. It's rare that any form of compensation actually comes to much, and it can be written off against tax.
A project will have a budget for breaches, legal costs and contingencies built in. In terms of looking at cumulative affects of multiple compounds, that's an infinite request, so, all they need to do is comply with current legislation, which is set by governments, in consultation with the stakeholders. The biggest of these is big business.
Mission statements are for PR, most of the time, not actually doing. |
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dpack
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Rob R
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Cathryn
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Rob R
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Tavascarow
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You know it's the EU that are debating this in order to provide new regulations?
You lot can be immensely pessimistic. Things do change and improve. New things come up that are pretty horrible but they'll change as well and it may not be what the company's risk analysis covered at the time and it may not have been something they perceived as being their job or responsibility but it can become so, in response to pressures, legislation, society, making less money so they are forced to clean up their act. Maybe EU regulations will help. (I'm fighting hard not to be cynical. ) |
EU regulations on air pollution now being negotiated. (Greenpeace report).
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New rules that were supposed to help tackle deadly air pollution in Europe could result in weaker rules than are currently in place in China (notorious for its poor air quality), a Greenpeace investigation has revealed. |
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The reason these proposed pollution standards are so weak could be the level of influence that the big polluters have had on the process. Our investigation found that the UK is one of the countries that have most aggressively tried to weaken the proposed limits. And we also found that five members of the UK’s nine-person delegation to the European negotiations are employees of big polluters, including Big Six coal power plant operators E.ON, RWE and EDF.
In fact, over half the working group members across the EU (183 out of 352) are industry lobbyists. And in dozens of cases, members of staff from coal-burning firms are taking part in the process, not as formal industry representatives, but as government delegates appointed by the member states. |
Cynics or realists? |
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