Bad for business
THE BUSINESS Roundtable, a global organisation founded in the United States during the Richard Nixon days to counter the influence of organised labour, has successfully scuttled a US proposal for stricter pollution sentences. The measures would have set sizeable fines as well as jail terms for executives convicted of causing pollution. However, following a meeting between high level executives from the Roundtable and the US Attorney, the tougher sentence proposal was shelved. The members of the secretive Roundtable are all household names, and some of them are the world’s worst polluters, which may explain their opposition to stiff fines and jail sentences. Among those named as the top twelve contributors to global pollution by the Earth Day Wall Street Action Handbook are DuPont, Shell, British Petroleum, Monsanto and Kodak. In New Zealand the Business Roundtable has demonstrated its distaste of stronger environmental protection. It successfully fought to hold over the Resource Management Bill.
Source: Earth Island Journal
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Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 4, 1 November 1990, Page 6
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160Bad for business Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 4, 1 November 1990, Page 6
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