4 - Wednesday, May 10, 1989 - North Shore News

EVEN THOUGH aeroso! sprays have been mostly elimi-

nated, in terms of total CFC production worldwide, we are
back up to the levels of 20 years ago, when we were spewing
out 860,000 tonnes of CFCs a year.

Back then, of course, nobody
knew this stuff was a rega-threat
to the whole earthly system.

Today, everyone knows the
ozone layer is being trashed, yet
there is no public outcry. Why? Is
the ozone layer too much out of

‘ sight; out of mind?

That surely can’t be the case,
because anybody putting on
sunglasses is acknowledging the
power of that ongoing atomic
bomb in the sky we call the sun.
The ozone is what stands between
us and certain death from its
Pitiless radiation.

With the loss of the ozone layer,
we would all become hibakusha, «as
the survivors of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki are called.

Surely, there ought to be a few
protest marches?

This unhealthy and unnatural
apathy has been fostered deliber-
ately by industry, with government
compounding the inertia by com-
ing out with strong public state-
ments about taking steps to ban
CFCs, while in fact, not a single
fridge has had its CFC contents
properly removed before being
thrown on the junk heap, and CFC
production in Canada remains at
21,000 tonnes a year.

Industry has bafflegabbed its
way around the fact that it is car-
rying on business as usual, while
appearing to bow to the inevitable.

And while industry has been
dragging its feet, government has
been doing nothing more than fid-
dling with regulations as the ozone
continues to burn invisibly and
silently above us. -

The proposed CFC regulations
gazetted in Ottawa last week rep-
resent the federal government’s
best shot yet to control the traffic
in chemical apocalypse.

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It is a pathetic shot, at best.

But maybe this shouldn’t come
as a surprise. Not a single soul has
actually been hired to put En-
vironment Minister Lucien
Bouchard’s anti-CFC package
together. The burden has simply
been added on to the workload of
an already badly-understaffed bu-
reaucracy, still reeling from terrific
cuts inflicted by the Tories when
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R ather than leading,
federal politicians are
leaving the battle against
CFCs to the bureaucrats,
who are groping timidly
around, not wanting to
get the big companies

upset.”’

Insiders predict that Ottawa will
not have its regulatory mechanism
for CFCs in place for at least a
year, at the rate the department of
the environment is moving now,
under the leadership of the laid-
back Bouchard.

The fact that his ministry
escaped cuts amid the orgy of def-
icit-trimming is marginally good
news. But a nine per cent increase
in spending can hardly be describ-
ed as a national envirunmental
crusade, especially since the money
for Great Lakes cleanup and the
cleansing of several putrescent
harbors, promised during the elec-
tion, has vanished.

Besides, the increase only raises
the environment department's

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budget slightly above where it was
five years ago.

It may be a step forward, but we
are starting from five steps back.

This is the immediate political
background to Canada’s fumbling
efforts to lead the world to the
ozone barricades and save Planet
Earth from doom.

It would be so nice, since Cana-
dians say we are doing something,
if we were doing something, after
all.
But a handful of harried bu-
reaucrats scrambling around to
come up with some kind of com-

promise between what the multina- -

tional manufacturers want in terms
of an ‘‘orderly transition’’ toa
post-CFC user society, and what is
good for us, can hardly be
described as a worthy Canadian
response to a global emergency,
especially if we would pretend to
tead. °

Rather than leading, federal pol-
iticians are leaving the battle
against CFCs to the bureaucrats,
who are groping timidly around,
not wanting to get the big com-
panies upset.

The timetable they are proposing
in which to phase out CFCs by the
end of the century does absolutely
nothing more than guarantee that
the rate of destruction of the ozone
Jayer will be maintained at its cur-
rent level during all that time, in-
stead of actually being cut back.

According to the U.S. En-
vironmental Protection Agency,
merely to hope to stop the rate of
ozone deterioration, we would
have to reduce worldwide CFC
production by 85 per cent im-
mediately.

The federal government isn’t
coming close to doing that. The
regulations Bouchard is proposing
are toothless.

Here is the government’s phi-
losophy, summed up on page 23 of
the suggested regulations:

“‘Market forces are likely to
promote conservation ... However,
if market forces do not compel
manufacturers to (build non-CFC)
alternative equipment), a require-
ment for such facilities in order to
do business with the federal gov-
ernment probably would.’’

We have the words ‘“‘likely’’ and
“‘probably’’ in one sentence.
That’s not the language of lead-
ership, that’s the language of
equivocation, obfuscation and
procrastination @

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