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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987

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SO SEGREGATION WITH OTHERS INVOLVED MOVING OUT FACTORY OPERATIONS FROM WHOLE BUILDINGS OR SINGLE FLOORS, AND IT MEANT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SEPARATE FACTORY AREAS FOR THEM WHERE THEY WERE NOT IN A POSITION TO POLLUTE ANYONE ELSE.

+ I THINK THIS IS ACHIEVABLE FOR WHAT ONE CAN CALL SMALL POLLUTERS, WHOSE TOTAL LOAD MAY BE MANAGEABLE IF REMOVED FROM RESIDENTIAL AREAS, MR BARNES SAID.

+BUT FOR VERY MAJOR POLLUTERS WE MUST SEGREGATE AND REDUCE THE OVERALL POLLUTION LOAD OR CLOSE THEM DOWN.

MR BARNES SAID EFFORTS SHOULD ALSO BE MADE TO REMOVE WHAT WERE KNOWN AS THE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS INSTALLATIONS, THAT WAS, STORAGES OF SUBSTANCES WHICH IF ESCAPED COULD DAMAGE AND SET AT RISK LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.

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HERE THE HARM DONE IN ROUTINE OPERATION TO THOSE WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR WAS MINIMAL. AS THEY WERE IN FACT WELL PROTECTED BY THE SELF-INTEREST OF THOSE OPERATING THE STORAGE, BY SAFETY REGULATIONS AND BY THE IR ENFORCEMENT.

+ I THINK PERHAPS THE MOST EFFECTIVE FORM OF PROTECTION IS THE OPERATORS' OWN INTEREST IN SAFETY, WHICH IS A FACTOR WHICH SELDOM EXISTS IN RELATION TO POLLUTION,+ HE SAID.

+AND FOR MYSELF WOULD RATE A HIGHER PRIORITY TO MOVING THE FACTORY, WHICH IS CONTENTEDLY CUTTING ITS COSTS BY DAILY FILLING UP THE GUTS OF ITS NEIGHBOURS WITH SO2, THAN TO THE COMPANY WHICH HAS A MASSIVE INTEREST, IN BOTH FINANCIAL AND LEGAL TERMS AND ALSO IN ITS OVERALL REPUTATION WORLDWIDE, IN THE PROTECTION OF BOTH ITS GOODS AND ITS NEIGHBOUR FROM DANGER,

+THAT IS WHY I PUT THIS FORM OF SAFETY IN A LOWER PRIORITY THAN POLLUTION, ESPECIALLY AIR POLLUTION, THOUGH I REALISE THAT I WILL BE STICKING MY NECK OUT A LONG WAY IN DOING SO, AND THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC, EXCITED BY HORROR STORIES IN THE MEDIA, MAY NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY.+

MR BARNES SAID THE THIRD PRIORITY FOR REPLANNING WAS THE OLDER URBAN AREAS.

+THESE ARE AS I HAVE SAID ELSEWHERE BEFORE, GOING DOWNHILL QUITE STEADILY, AND THEY NEED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF SORTING OUT.+

HE SAID THIS WAS BEING DONE IN SEVERAL WAYS, THE FIRST BEING THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

THE CONTRIBUTION IT COULD MAKE WAS IN REDEVELOPING LARGER BLOCKS OF LAND AND STREETS WITH A BETTER ENVIRONMENT THAN PRIVATE DEVELOPERS HAD HITHERTO ASPIRED TO.

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