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Pollution: Questions about the "Love Canal" incident from the 80's?

by Guest60001  |  earlier

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So i need to write a one page paper on the Love Canal incident and here at the questions that i must answer, please help me out if you can :D. This is my last paper to write before i graduate next week lol.

1. Where is the Love Canal?

2. What 2 bodies of water does it connect?

3. What year was it made?

4. What was placed in the canal? (background on this; was it sold, how much was it sold for, was something built on it)

5. What year did products start leaking from out of the canal?

6. What kind of products were leaking out?

7. Whar are 3 problems (long or short term) people received because of the toxic chemicals?

8. Other interesting info.

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  1. Love Canal is located in Western New York, near Niagara Falls.    It does not connect any bodies of water; the project was abandoned during construction.  A chemical company purchased the property (at the time, a huge hole in the ground) and used it as landfill for several decades.  After the landfill was closed, the company intended to keep the property because they did not consider it safe for development.  The Niagara Falls School District used the threat of Eminent Domain to pressure Hooker Chemical into turning over the property and, ignoring warnings from the company, subdivided the land and resold it to developers without informing them of its history.  Construction activity then caused the chemicals to leak out.

    Bottom line:  A poisoned community was created by the school board who then turned around and blamed the chemical company, even though the chemical company warned that the land was not safe.


  2. just google "history of love canal" for your answers.

    Bottom line:  

    The proximate cause was an inept and/or corrupt local government.

    The root cause was an industry that puts profit ahead of human health. This is still going on today.

    While it is not fair to apply current knowledge to past situations, it is also not fair for the perpetrators to take profits and walk away from problems.

    These types of shams are a perfect ploy for polluters.  For the price of giving up the value of the land (which they knew full well that is was not an asset, it was a liability) and a one paragraph caveat, they thought they could divorce themselves permanently from the problem.

    Correctly, they didn't get away with it.

  3. Read this, should answer most of your questions.

    http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/loveca...

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