Louisiana-Pacific Corporation's Attempt to Lower Air Emissions Standards!
September 01, 2009
The Louisiana-Pacific Corporation has made a public request to the Clean Environment Commission to have their Air Emissions Standards lowered! It is requesting to have its emission limits of formaldehyde
increased by more than forty-seven fold at the dryer, and nearly fourteen fold at the press. Benzene emission limits
will increase by a factor of twenty-one and a half at the dryer, and sixty-five and two-thirds at the press.
The LPC argues that the levels are low enough that they do not pose a risk.
Rather than hope that these levels are low enough to not pose a risk, and continue to use them until hard scientific evidence emerges showing that they may, in fact, be far more harmful than we were assessing, the Green Party of Manitoba believes that we should implement the precautionary principle. This means that when evidence gives us good
reason to believe that an activity, technology, or substance may be harmful, we should act to prevent
harm rather than waiting for scientific certainty, especially when alternatives exist.
In the present situation there is good evidence to indicate that the pollutants being released, including
benzene, formaldehyde, and MDI may be harmful. Furthermore the technology already exists, and is
already installed, to minimize the release of these harmful pollutants.
There are ... ways that LPC could work on reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, and the Clean
Environment Commission should examine these alternatives.
Read the Article Here.
Clean Environment Commission
January 01, 2007
Scoping 'Review of the Hog Production Industry' January 2007
Presentations in DOC and PDF format available Here.
"Heavy" Votes Bend Parliament Out Of Shape
January 29, 2006
As a voter,
doesn't it just nibble your grits that some voter's votes this year have
ended up being far heavier than average, while many others have simply
evaporated?
Read the Article Here.
Send Slaughterhouse Packing
December 03, 2005
When I came to Winnipeg in 1973, I remember the slaughterhouse
district, spreading a palpable smog over St. Boniface. Palpable means
"you can touch it with your fingers," and that described the oily,
penetrating fug that originated at the huge plants.
Today, we are told that the smell might be eliminated. If that's the case,
good. But other effects cannot be eliminated. Someone's going to get
hurt.
Read the Article Here.
