Swill & Squeal 1970
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“I'm more
ECOLOGY HAS BECOME AN OVERNIGHT ISSUE,.
EVERYONE IS CLIMBING ON THE BANĽWAGON---INCLUDING THE MAJOR POLLUTORS THEMSELVES.
WE BELIEVE THAT MOST OF THE SPEAKERS
YOU WILL HEAR AT THIS TEACH-IN CANNOT
EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH THE REAL ISSUES
INVOLVED IN THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS. THEY
WILL FASCINATE YOU, LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, AS
THEY TALK ABOUT THE GREAT CATASTROPHE
JUST AROUND THE CORNOR»; THEN THEY WILL
TELL YOU THAT THINGS LIKE LITTERRBAGS AND
ANTI-POLLUTION PEVICES ON YOUR CARS WILL
SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
THE ESTABLISHMENT REALIZES THAT THERE
IS A GREAT POTENTIAL FOR RADICAL ACTION
IN THE ECOLOGY ISSUE. THE PURPOSE OF
THIS TEACH-IN IS NOT SO MUCH TO PREPARE
US TO SOLVE THE CRISIS AS TO GIVE THE
POLITICIANS A PLATFORM AND TO DIVERT
OUR ENERGIES INTO "SAFE" CHANNELS THAT
WILL NOT LEAD US TO QUESTION THE STATUS
QUO. AT THE PRESENT ECOLOGY IS VIEWED
AS A NON-POLITICAL ISSUE SEPERATE FROM
RACIAL INJUSTICE AND IMPERIALISM. BOTH
THESE ASSUMPTIONS ARE FALSE 3!
TO COUNTERACT THIS TOOTHLESS TEACH-IN
WE HAVE ARRANGED FOR THIS PAMPHLET ANT
THE ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE AUDITORIUM.
JOIN US WHEN YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH?!!
--Radical coalition for Environmental Action
STUDENTS ANGRY
(Story on back page.)
AGNEW REPORT
CRITICIZES
New Crisis
(Continued on next page)
ECOLOGY
Obituaries
Lake Eriedied
Saturday in
St. Joseph
à ioa
Worst Yet
Mercy Hospital, Pontiac.
Surviving are
St. Clair and
Detroit rivers
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WHAT NOW--DOW?
We found an interesting article in the April 21, 1970 Wall Street Journal
(of all strange places.) Since Fred Brown is an employee of Dow Chemical we
thought a few excerpts from this article might prove informative:
The Dow Chemical Company has been sending Speakers to various teach-ins around the
country. |
"These activities demonstrate how far one big company is going to take part
in the flurry of environmental teach-ins that are occurring across the country.
An especially heavy schedule is in prospect for tomorrow asg part of the observance
of Earth Day. Instead of shunning Barth Day activities altogether, as many companfes
are doing, Dow is going all out to make itself visible on campus,"
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"Dow recently lost its napalm contract, but it still supplies brush-killing
herbicides used by the military in Vietnam. Critics claim the herbicides are
damaging the ecology of the country and may even be responsible for birth defects
in Vietnamese babies." | * *
"Dow's decision to plunge into environmental activities on campus dates back
to late last year, when executives guessed correctly that the environmental
movement was going to mushroom and decided that the company might benefit from
participating in it. “Napalm greatly sensitized us to think outside ourselves,"
says one official." *
"In mid-February 50 Dow executives gathered at company headquarters for a
half-day teach-in at which they themselves were the "students." Four outside
speakers filled them in on the environmental movement and its aims. A student,
David Allan, co-chairman of the University of Michigan teach-in, told the
executives that students were impatient and angry with the role of Dow and other
corporations in polluting the onvimonment,"
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"To prepare for the latest round of teach-ins, Dow recently called another
meeting of public relations mena and officials who had been designated to
reprovont. the company as speakers, Executives' experiences at ħhhe University of
Michigan teach-in were discussed, and then the officials threw practice questions
at one another, Each man was given a packet containing official Dow responses
b several controversial issues, including the company’s involvement in hapalm
and herbicides. |
The. executives were cautioned, however, not to answer questions too quickly
lòst, it become obvious they were reciting prepared answers. They were urged to
think about each question "for five seconds' before replying. |
The most troubling question was how to deal with the recent disclosure that
a Dow plant at Sarnia, Ontario, had been spilling poisonous mercury into the St,
Claii* River and contaminating fish. As a result, U.S. and Canadian authorities
have banned fishing in the St. Clair River and Lake St, Clair and in parts of the
Detroit' River and Lake Erie,
Dow officials at the briefing were unsure how to deal with the matter at
teach-ins. 'It shoots us down,' said E.S. (Bud) Shannon, a waste control manager.
'I haven't come up with an answer to that yet,'
One executive at the meeting asked if it would be wise to tell students that
other companies have also been blamed for putting mercury into the lakes and
rivers. But Chester E. Otis, head of Dow's ecology council, advised otherwise.
'Dontt defend our lack of diligence, our stupidity, by trying to point the finger
at someone else, he said.,
As the booing and heckling experienced by Mr. Doan and other executives
indicate, Dow clearly had a long way to go before it erases the hostility felt
by many students,
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Some students are particularly irked by the tactic of sending public
rpłlations. man Soghigian onto campuses in "undercover" garb, 'I don't approve
of it at all,' says Jerry De Grieck, vice president of the Student Government
Society at Michigan. He says he believes Dow is merely trying to change its
image and not ity policies. Tom F. Wieder, another Michigan student, says, ,
'They should hiré another pollution control engineer and get rid of the PR man,"
| * k N
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CHEERS FOR DOW
Suččess cheer: work-study-get ahead-KILL}
work-study-get ahead-KILL?
GO DOW; Beat the Environment?
Dow, Dow, he's our man
If he can't do it, GM can
2-14-D and picloram
Napalm packaged in Saran
Doin', his job for Uncle Sam
Killing the people fn Vietnam. dEn |
HOROO OO O O O O O oa o OOo OOOO OO ookko oO ok
Pollute, pollute
PBllute the '$ea
P-0-L-L-ÙÜ-T-E!
Profits first for the company!
If it kills peoplè--too bad!
Go Dow! :
SESPSRSRERISSSSSSSASSSSLISESESSSSSRISSSLSSSSSASSSSSSSSSSSSSISSSSSISSS SSSss
Push the Blacks, push the Blacks, way back
Push the Blacks, push the Blacks, way back
Push the women, push the women, way back
Push the women, push the women, way back;
Keep it white
Keep it målè `
Keep the, working class in jail;
Here at home pollute the air,
Do thè' killing òver there!
GO DOW!
PARRRRRRRRRARRRRRRHRRRARRRR ARERR ARAHR AARAA HARAR ARHAR RARRRRR ARAARA HAR HAHBRARHHHHH
Better Living Through 'Counter-insurgeńcy.
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o THB LR ENSE OF THE ENVIRON GNT 15 TBS DGF Eil OF DAN
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New University Conference--M.S.U,
“The ecological crisis which we face is real. But the way in which business and government have defined the crisis for us is incomplete and mitleading--designed to prevent us from finding proper solutions. To separate
questions of critical social relations in this Society from a discussion of
ecology is to hold a view of ecology which favors the status quo. In making
our pnsition clear, NUC views man's present relationship to nature as in a
dangerous State of equilibrium. But we also view that relationship as not
simply one with nature, but with other societies. The relationship between
man and his environment is at the same time part of the relationship of man
to man; A society which exploits nature also exploits people. Specifically
how can we talk about the ecological crisis in the United States without discussing the following:
l1. The use of resources is determined by profitability and bears only a
coincidental relation to human need. The oil industry is a good example of this.
Oil companies are among the largest contributors to both the Republican and
Democratic parties. Their economic power is parlayed into the power to pollute.
It is not at all surprising that the original leasing of off-shore lots in the
Santa Barbara channel occurred over the objections of the local citizenry
during the tenure of the illustrious conservationist and then Secretary of
the Interior, Stewart Udall. Similarly the actions of Warren Hickel leave
no doubt about his overriding concern for Alaska's oil, not for the preservation of its environment. Under pressure from the public, Hickel first
stopped the Crilling on Alaska's north slope, then started it, then stopped
it, and then in a new strategy started it up gradually.
2. Production for profit requires the sale of goods. We would agree with
individuals like Vance Packard who say that our society produces waste in
order to have profit. The greatest wastemaker in our view is the War rachine.
Profits, at some of the highest levels known in our country, go for the production of goods meant to destroy and to create waste. They are produced
not to be used, ostensibly, because they are only for our "defense." Thus on
the one hand, we have vast Stores never to be used, never having served a
useful purpose, while on the other hand, we sell modern and obsolescent weapons
to other nations to use against each other. And if there were any doubt about
the immediate application of our weapony, we have only to look at Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, and our black communities.
3. The present state of our technical capacity to cope with environmental
problernis iz largely a consequence of the directions taken by private research.
We need only compare our financial commitment to chemical and biological warfare (aimed at the destruction of ccrtain people's environments) to efforts
directed at our much publicized ecological crisis.
4. Government efforts to preserve the environment are hypocritical as long
as the military uses environmental destruction (defoliation, etc.) as a means
for destroying people. We regard our government's efforts toward ecology
as insincere if it persists in destroying the ecology of Vietnam, Laos, and
Cambodia. One of the major perspectives in ecology is, in fact, the interrelatednes: of systems, the balance which exists within the earth as a whole.
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The-destructim nf thori gy of anther retin is just as important and serious
as what we do. here.
5. The United States as a nation needs- to be`viewed in its relationship-to
other countries of the world. Our enjoyment of relative affluence is made
possible by our exploitation of a disproportionate share of the world's
riches. Seven percent of the world's population (us) utilizes over fifty
percent of its resources. This requires a sub-standard level of living for
most of the rest of the world. The plundering of nature cannot be separated
from the plundering of men. The destruction of the herds of buffalo cannot
be separated from the destruction of the Plains Indians. The destruction of
Vietnamese forests cannot be separated from the destruction of the Vietnamese
people. One pet dog in our society consumes more protein in one year than
most of the inhabitants of Third World nations. If we are concerned with the
habitat of Man, we must condemn as crimes against all of humanity, the deli-
berate destruction of nature as an instrument of policy. |
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"arn Xx Ps
6. The most important part of human life should be our relationships with
other people, and for the majority of Americans, those people live in cities.
To talk of urban ecology without discussing racism and its consequences is
to accept that narrow définition of ecology now put forward. The ghetto environment is an extreme. tase of pollution--it is infested with rats, roaches,
and pigs; painted with toxic paints, improperly heated, disease-ridden from
inadequate plumbing and overcrowding. Any environmental movement must support
the struggles of the poor urban dweller: for a healthy, decent, and aesthetic
ehvironment. .
The reasons why cities are ugly and sad
is not that people who live there are bad.
It's that most of the peoplė who really decide
What goes on in the city live somewhere outside.
(Kennėth Boulding, 1970)
7. ‘The very solutions presented for our crisis are placed in the hands of
those who only want to "manage" the environment. In fact, we need a re-orientation toward our environment, nor further efforts to "control" nature.
Our concern is for humanity. In our view, the full potentials of life
must be made available to everyone. We agree with Lynn White that the true
roots of our ecological crisis lie in the obsessive need by a certain culture
to dominate, to control, to conquer, to manage, ultimately to destroy other
environments and other cultures. It is an evil compulsion to simplify what
should naturally be complex in order to better force-feed our exploitative
economic system. We find in current national policy a strong analogy between
present efforts to manage the environment and the way in which we grorgrass:
destroy all thəse plants defined ays weeds (crab grass, dandelions, daisys,
ċhickoree, wild astors) in order to have a perfectly uniform lawn.
Respnnsibility and the Ecological Crisis
Our industrial society is undoing the work of organic evolution. This
iş the essence of the ecological crisis. It is therefore a crisis which affects
all of us as human beings. If our generation is witnessing the despoilation of a
planet that exceeds all the damage inflicted by earlier generations, little
more than a generation may remain before the destruction of the environment
becomes irreversible. We must look at the roots of the ecological crisis.
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yerta woa TTU, ond withoe ieir ei Giuoso wie Loi puw, LL16
are not equally responsihle for-ecalogical problems. An individual may drive
an automobile, find mercury in fish catches and sell it to others, throw a
beer bottle out of his car window, Smoke cigarettes, and the like. Such acts
are irresponsible and do pollute. However, if we examine the automobile
industry we find that the major contributor to air pollution is the exhaust
of automobiles. And it seems reasonable to predict that a great deal of superficial cleaning up (probably under new laws and increased prices) will take
place. Ford Motor Company, for example, claims it is producing engines which
can use unleacéd gasoline, cutting the quantity of pollutants generated. But
the problem is the internal combustion engine itself. All fossil fuel burning
must leave some noxious waste products. Even if the amount per car of pollutants is reduced, the number of operating cars is bound to increase. So--our
responSe to Henry Ford and like individuals is--are you adding your political
influence and corporate resources to reduce construction of the number of
automobiles, to develop alternative transportation systems, to reduce highway construction, to diminish the importance of the automobile in people's
consciousness and identity? The automobile company is in business to make
cars and thereby money. And its interests are to sustain and expand the carculture, and to increase the numbers of automobiles sold. This then is no
answer to the perils of pollution from exhaust but it does demonstrate lines
of responsibility. We maintain that parallel argument! can be made in any
given sector of industrial life. The interests of private corporations are
against those of the society as a whole. Profits supercede the public interest.
As long as profits can be maintained or increased, pollution will be decreased
Somewhat by universal pressure. In the long run though, technology and production will befoul the environment unless, and only unless, values
more oriented to use and to people, than to profit prevail. And that means
political struggle around the very nature of economy and politics in America.
Ecology and the Teach-In
- Ecology--the relationships between living things and their environment.
The ecology of the teach-in ityelf has been degraded by its Sponsors and
. organizers. Publicized as a student teach-in, MSU students actually had very
little of substance to say about its organization and structure, and virtually
nothing to say about who was invited. Less than 4% of the panelists are
present by student demands. Students calling to help were told to address
envelopes and lick stamps. The organizers of the teach-in themselves acted in
a very fragmentary way without any clear perception of the nature of the questiont
. they should be asking. The shallowness of this approach is evident in the
kinds of stop-gap measures both the politicians and the "new contervationists"
propose. "Save the lake", or "canyon", or "redwoodS" but don't challenge the
politics and economics of land-use and distribution. "Stop littering" but
don't stop the producers of wate. Anti-pollution devices for cars, but no
mass transportation system. These "solutions" are all chewing gum and hairpins and will not get the ecology vehicle very far down the road. As a result
many of the major issues of the crisis will not be discussed. The organizers
of the teach-in have accepted the narrow definition of the ecological crisis
put forward by the United States government, Therefore few speakers from
MSU will focus attention on the role of IMSU--its pollution, ity racism, its
campus militarism--areay which might promote campus action. Instead the audience
sits and listeny precisely as if ecology were another Subject on which to
take notes to pasts a test, and then go on to the next course. Neither will
the politicians, who have massed like fliet to the ecology issue, discuss any
genuine alternatives to our present political and economic stalemate.
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SPEAKERS
The official teach-in program gives only very limited information about
thè teach-in speakers. A closer look at somọ of their backgrounds reveals that
they are haråly impartial judzes on the nature of and solution to the ecological
crisis, Some aro politicians secking reolection, and some work for the major
pollutors. fTheir'pøsitíons make it unlikely they will havo anything significant
to say.. We do not doubt that somo of those men are Sincere in their concern
over the crisis. We do question whother thoy are prepared to tako the strong
action necessary to solve the problem. :
Stowart Udall Aud. 1:00 pm, April 21.
It is difficult to know what to do with Mr. Udall. He will undoubtcdly
tell us of the great dangers of pollution, but will his solutions match the
magnitudo of the crisis? Here are soveral thoughts to kocp in mind when you
listen to him:
1, Does ho beliovo that further tochnelogical breakthroughs hold tho answer
to our pollution problem? If not, what basic changos in our
. ' livos and socioty aro noceossary? s
2. Doos ho boliove that wo can havo a continually expanding economy and
solvo tho ocRlogical crisis at tho somo time? If we cannot, how do.
we control corporations traditionally based on growth?
3. Who should carry the main burden for cloaning úp the environment, the
corporations who croatod tho mess or tho taxpayers?
+.. What typo of logal action should bo takoen against tho major pollutors?
5. Did Udall approvo the drilling standards for the Santa Barbara oil
disastor?
6, Is this man worth the Thousand dollars it cost to bring him hero?
Politicians
"Senator Hart and Congressmen Roiglo and Dingell are all soriously concerned
'ovor tho gravo problems our environment facos, and being deoply committed to the.
oradication of pollutants, they will use the full powor. of thoir offices TO:e ae.
-------BULLSHIT! :
tho oxport. :
This is pollution, bocauso it fouls our air and bonofits us nothing. Wc
have givon tho politicians a platform and an audicnce for thoir dull and dis- .
honest campaign rhotoric when we could bo hoaring from tho docply committed and
'Koep in mind most of tho same questions for those men as fer Udall,
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Govornor William G. Millikcn Aud, 3:00 pm April 22
Bill G, Millikcn is prosidont of J.W, Millikon, Inc., which owns dopartmont stong in Travorse City, Cadillac and Maniitöoo.. He -likos to talk about
pollution a lot. -In January 1969, hc said, "Those who prospor from our rosourcos
must holp to proscrvo thom" and "Tho samc tochnology which rosultcd in pollution
must now be harnessed to corroct it" Ho has also said that public funds usod:
for improving tho onvironmeont must bo allocated "on tho basis of truo need"
To Millikon this moans that the moncy gocs to tho corporations. This is why
in his budgot mossage for tho fiscal year 1969-1970 ho boasted bout how successful the state has boen in obtaining applications for tax exemptions for pollution control devices from the state's industrices, Those tax oxomptions have
ammountcd to ovor $184 million, a big savings to corporations oven as largo as
GM or Ford,
Milliken would bo on firmer ground if he started some significant changes
in the state's pollution control apparatus, such as creating a Stato Departmont
of Ecology with thc power to force corporations to stop polluting.. This
strategy might provoko some very strong political roaction, however.
Most of tho same questions should be kopt in mind when listening to
Milliken A1so:
l. Does he intend to prosecute the Dow Chemical Company for polluting Lake
St. Clair? What about othor pollutors?
Noto: It is our understanding that our govornor plans to spoak-and-run without
answering any quostions,. If this is truo, we urge’that all members of tho
audience VOCALLY INSIST ho remain to answor questions from. the floor.
Fred Brown Aud, 1:15, April 22
Mr. Brown, who is listed on the teach-in program as a representative of
Michigan United. Conservation Clubs, is hore to talk to us about "Industry,
The Citizen and the Environment". What we are not told is that Mr. Brown also
happens to be an employec of the Dow Chemical Company.,
Bolieving that áctions do speak louder than words, we think one can, perhaps
form a better opinion of Mr, Brown's true interest in ecology by what he contrib-
utes to than by what he says.
Everyone is aware of Dow's role in producing napalm for the US military.
Many people do not realize that Dow's role docs not stop there. Dow proudly
advertises that it has been manufacturing war chemicals since 1917, and is
currently one of the chief manufacturers of defoliants and herbicides used in
Viet Nam. One of the Dow-manufacturcd defoliants currently used, picloram,
is so strong that it destroys the ability of the land to produce for at least
ten years when used in the concentrations approved by the US Army. The results
of this biochemical warfare program have been many. About twenty percent of
the farm land in South VietNam has been destroyed--and this in a country which
has, for hundreds of years, barely becn able to produce enough food to Support
itself, Also, hundreds of thousands of acres of Mangrove swamps have been
destroyed by spraying. These swamps, which take over a hundred years
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to grow back, are, the sole covor for many Species of Vietnamese flora and
fauna, and are considered by most ecologists to be essential to the ecology
of Vietnám. They are being Systematically destroyed with the aid of Dow .
chemical,
At home Dow does not seem to need the aid of the U,S, military to do its
work; at least. not as long as it can keep up its supply of mercury. No mangrove
swamps in lfiichigan? | Well, Lake St. Clair will do just about as well. (Dow
is being prosecuted by the Attorney General of Ohio for its recent role in
mercury distribution, )
We do not wish to deny that ir, Brown and his Club are very Sincere
in their efforty to preserve the prerogatives of hunters and tnowmobilers,
but we do think it interesting that he is, at the same time, willing to work
for a company engaged in. deliberate ecological destruction far away, and notso-deliberate (but just as severe) ecological destruction not so far away.
pollutor? : . :
Questions; :
1. How can a man Speak impartially on ecology when he works for a ma jor
2. Why isn't Dow open and honest about its contribution to pollutíon instead
of trying to` cover it up.
3. Vhy isn't iir. Brown more interested in the pollution of Low than- in
hunters and fishermen? Fei i
Dr, John Reynolds Auditorium April 22. 1:15
Dr. Reynolds is the Environmental Surveillance Coordinator for
Consumers Power. Company. - Here is another case of a major pollutor expressing
his concern for the quality of our environment. Power use in the United
States doubles every ten yearS. Among the dangers inherent in such growth
is the ever increasing amounts of CO2 from fossil fuels pouring into the atmosphere with the potential for dangerous climate change (see Garrett DeBell,
The Environmental Handbook, "Energy"). Future plans of the Consumers Power
Company call for a greater use of nuclear energy; but, unfortunately, this
opens. the; door .to. increased thermal pollution of water and the complicated dangers
of radioactive waste material.disposal. Consumers Power will assure us that
these problems are being met, but it is difficult to find an independent source
to evaluate their claims. Most research into thermal pollution is carried
on by the Company itself or by university ycientists. on company grants,
(See the Governor's Conference on Thermal Pollution, pp. 5-8)
Here are a few thoughts for Èr. Reynolds:
1. IS Consumers Power prepared to pay for any damage to the environment caused
by its thermal or radioactive pollution? |
2. To what extent is the demand for power artifically generated through
advertising and other means?
3. Don't we have to stabilize our power consumption or face serious ecological
consequences?
Harold lcClure 109 Kedzie. 4:00 P.M., iay 14 (see reverse)
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There has proutably basn no pollution issue which has so excited public
indignation as the pege dcue to tur euviremnent by the oil industry. : We
might, therefore, expect some incisive criticism of the oil industry here
at our teach-in. So, who has been thoughtfully provided to inform us of the
culpabilities of the oil industry? 12, Harold McClure - President of McClure
Oil Company. :
"~AS you no doubt know, “he oil industry is just getting started ín
Michigan, Mooi, is part of it. A delightful prospect awaits us in future
years - offshore dpilling in the Great Lakes, pollution of rivers and streams,
destruction of heacheos and wildlife, and possible mass upsetting of the
ecology - all from an induetry wiich, in Michigan has so far shown precious
little concern for the ecological question, oxcept as regards ducking the
issue altogether. Remember Santa Barbu”a, and the Gulf Coast, and Florida, and
remember that ducks and fish can't hear what presidents of oil companies say,
but they can still die from what oil conpanies do - and so can we,
Questions you might ask Mr, McClure,
The Union 0il Company said it wouldn't happen again - but it did.
promises
would you like to make? |
What.
Oil product-consuming engines cause over half the air pollution in the
U.S. How do you feel about banning them? About restricting their use to
mass transportation systems?
Whom did you vote for for Congress and the Senate?
How do you feel about Michigan HR. 3055, which would allow private eitizens
to institute anti-pollution suits against corporations?
John G. Winger. Thursday, May 21. 3:30 P.M. 101 N, Kedzie
What better man could visit us to explain "Fuels, World Industrial
Developrnient and Environment" than John G. Winger, Vice-President of the
Chase Manhattan Bank. No doubt he will be able to explain how the dire
predictions of ecolorists on the dangers of fossil fuels are unfounded,
Mr. Winger has had a long association with the oil interests. He worked
as a petroleum economist with Cities Service 0il Company (1946-49) and with
the Chase Manhattan Bank (1950- ). Heig a member of the National
Petroleum Council, tho American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum
Association of America, the International 0il and Gas Education Center
(Serving on ‘he advisory board and asg chairman of the committee on petroleum),
the Southwestern Lsgal Foundation, and the New York Council of Business
Economists. He ralaxes at the Fairmont (new Jersey) Country Club.
Questions,
1. Should industry be financially responsible for oil spill damages?
2. Can the pollution problems inherent in oil usage be solved through
technological means alone? n | :
of the earth? C
3. Is Chase Manhatan Bank willing to sacrifice profits for the survival
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