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2004-06-11 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-11 12:33:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is a natural for the UN. Worldwide ban for years (1977 in the USA) so there will be hardly any left in use. The UN can spend a few billions, do their usual indescernable from nothing, and claim success. Removing it from teh environment is a joke. We have no choice except to wait for natural decay.

Also note this particularly weasily example of journalism - but they are still in use in a wide array of electrical equipment,. The casual reader would take this to mean PCBs are still in widesread use, which they are not.

Posted by Phil B 2004-06-11 1:44:27 AM|| 2004-06-11 1:44:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The killer PCB's?

Posted by mojo 2004-06-11 3:26:58 AM|| 2004-06-11 3:26:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I pour PCBs over my asbestos pancakes every morning. Yummy.

Posted by SteveYao 2004-06-11 6:45:03 AM|| 2004-06-11 6:45:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dozens of experts armed with a new global treaty began Thursday to plan a decades-long assault on PCBs, one of the most widespread and difficult to eradicate chemical pollutants. Billions of dollars will be spent globally "to make the world PCB-free by the year 2028" under the treaty that went into force last month, said James B. Willis, director of the chemicals unit at the U.N. Environment Program.

Sounds like a corporation made one of their protection money payments to Kofi Inc. late.

Posted by badanov 2004-06-11 7:59:18 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-11 7:59:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Think the UN can beat the PCB's? Or will they negotiate a settlement with them?

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-11 6:35:31 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:35:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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