February 26, 2007
A timeline of environmental action
Posted by Steve Janke of the Blogging Tories at 02:38 AM
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In doing to cleanup research on the question of bromine lobbying by key Liberals, I assembled an interesting timeline. It is revealing.
Recall that senior Liberal Party strategist John Duffy was revealed to be a key lobbyist for the bromine industry. Bromines are considered by many environmental scientists to be worse that chlorine in terms of impact on the atmosphere, and compounds that use bromines, such as PBDEs, are persistent in the environment, much in the same way as PCBs are.
The bromine industry, of course, was working hard to avoid an outright ban on the sale and use of bromine compounds, and John Duffy seemed all too happy to help them. So what happened while the Liberals were in power, and then when the Conservatives took over?
Consider this timeline:
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