"American sources are major contributors to the pollution that harms our air and health. Every year air pollution entering Ontario from the United States contributes to more than 2,700 premature deaths," said Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky in releasing the government report yesterday.
Airborne pollutants arrive here in prevailing winds from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
The report puts the smog toll from Canadian and U.S. sources at 4,881 premature deaths a year and $9.6 billion in health and environmental costs.
But it focuses on damage from U.S. sources.
"The report also tells us on high smog days more than half of the ground-level ozone pollutants affecting Toronto's air originated in the United States. The numbers were even worse for Windsor where more than 90 per cent of these pollutants came from American sources and in Kingston where the number is over 80 per cent."
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U.S. Smog Batters Ontario
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He was right. There's no "wealth creation" without somebody paying the long term costs, sometime, somewhere. When corporations are cost cutting, economizing and become "more competitive and economically efficient", they're only transferring costs on other sectors, or the environment, because costs can not be cut, only transferred. The more the wealth creation, the more the cost transfers and pollution. Here's a very good example. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.
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The same situation also exists in Europe, where, even with much stricter environmental standards, the industrial pollution of Western Europe lands on the heads of the people in the East, cutting their life expectancy by 10, or more years. In short, there's no escape from the physical reactions of money making economic activities, otherwise known as "transferred costs".
14 years ago, when I first published my Efficiency Principle, or if you like, the only scientifically correct definition of economic efficiency, a well known Swedish doctor sent me a German study of 2 1/2 pages of the "volatile substances contained in mothers' milk". They got in there from the food they ate, the water they drank and the air they breathed. There's no escape and it is growing every day, unnoticed only by politicians and economists. Ed Deak, Big Lake. BC.