-=> George White said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "CAMCORDER REPAIRS" on 02-27-04  01:11.....

 GW> Then there was the plant producing the materials for the kind of motar
 GW> the Romans used, the only one in Europe. They had some dust coming out
 GW> of their stack, most of which landed within their site and the rest on
 GW> surrounding farmers fields. Because of new emmissions regulations from
 GW> the EU the local authorities said they had to fit scrubbers to remove
 GW> it (they actually sold the same material to farmers to spread on their
 GW> land as a fertiliser!), the cost of said equipment being _much_ more
 GW> than their annual profits (from memory over 2 years worth). They
 GW> couldn't justify this on their sales and so closed down...

Yep. Typical beaurocratic decisions. It doesn't matter whether
its good or bad, if it affects the environment inadvertently it
is to be stopped, but if it does it intentionally and there is
some profit in it, it is to be encouraged.

 GW> Now, a few years later, the EU is funding a program to develop the
 GW> material!!! Of course at much greater cost than the scrubbers for the
 GW> defunct company and sold for scrap site, now just another derelict
 GW> area, along with the skilled staff who knew how produce the material
 GW> who were all made redundant... :-(.

That is all too common these days :-((((

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