ENVS 2400 Lecture Notes - Campylobacter Jejuni, Shakeel, Environmental Governance
9 Apr 2014
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Shakeel dilbar- 211341815- reading commentary on walkerton reading by scott prudham. Scott prudham examines the walkerton incident as an important example of a normal accident of neoliberalism; one that can be expected from neoliberal environmental regulatory reforms arising from systematic irresponsibility in environmental governance. Escherichia coli and campylobacter jejuni bacteria which were implicated in the most severe cases and in all of the deaths. A year after public enquires resulted in these findings; certain former staff members of the walkerton public utility was made the scape goats as the ontario. Premier mike harris squarely pointed the blame at the staff and charges short of criminal negligence while in office were laid indictably. The walkerton incident served as a case study that uncovered how neoliberalism was constituted by environmental governance reform and conversely how environmental governance was reconfigured of the emergent mode of social regulation.
