Re: risk

[kegill@halcyon.com (Kathy E. Gill)]

On Wed, 8 May 1996 13:45:25 -0400 (EDT)
mrobinowitz@igc.apc.org wrote, in response to Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be

>If your industry was so safe, how come there is no petrochemical factory
>anywhere on Earth that is located in a wealthy community, or operates
>without chemical sewers and smokestacks?  If your effluent is so safe, why
>not keep 100% of it on site?
>
>Sounds like you're full of effluent.

(1) Mark -- factories aren't located "in a wealthy community" because the
land values are so high that no one could afford to *build* a factory
there. Just as there are no landfills, airports, hospitals, shopping malls,
or any other "nuisance" in the backyard of a high-rent districts.

(2) Factories don't keep effluent on site for the same reasons that people
install toilets, indoor plumbing and septic tanks/or/sewers.

BTW --- we're all full of effluent <g>. It's one reason to live is to pollute.

Kathy