ADMS 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Triple Bottom Line, Scandic Hotels, Our Common Future
6 Jan 2017
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From 1942 to 1953 hooker chemicals, maker of pesticides and plastics, dumps waste into love canal, near niagara falls, new york. 21,000 tons of highly toxic wastes placed into dump. Company sells entire area to niagara falls school board for on condition company would not be liable. Late 1970s residents notice smell of chemicals, children suffering chemical burns, eventually cancer, miscarriages, birth defects. Eventually 239 families moved, clean up over 12 years until 1991, at cost of million. 1986 operators at a nuclear plant shut off safety systems to conduct some unauthorized tests. One of plant(cid:495)s reactors overheated and exploded, spewed out radioactive materials up to 3 miles away. Government tried to cover it up but was detected by other countries. In 1989, oil tanker spills over 10 million gallons of oil over 900 square miles, 1,200 miles of coastline. Largest oil spill disaster in north american history.
