IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cpp/issued/v17y1991i1p86-105.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Controlling Effluent Discharges from Canadian Pulp and Paper Manufacturers

Author

Listed:
  • William F. Sinclair

Abstract

The review and analysis presented here indicate that it is both economically desirable and technically feasible for the pulp and paper industry to use the best known and available controls and treatments to safeguard the nation's waters. Government environmental authorities have overestimated the negative economic impact of mills adopting the technologies necessary to control effluents; they have overestimated the degree to which Canadians benefit from what are intended as temporary concessions on discharge controls to protect employment and income. Perhaps even more important, environmental authorities have failed to take into account adequately the enormous costs they may be imposing on present and future generations of Canadians as a result of concessions to pulp and paper manufacturers.

Suggested Citation

  • William F. Sinclair, 1991. "Controlling Effluent Discharges from Canadian Pulp and Paper Manufacturers," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 17(1), pages 86-105, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:17:y:1991:i:1:p:86-105
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0317-0861%28199103%2917%3A1%3C86%3ACEDFCP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
    Download Restriction: only available to JSTOR subscribers
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jean-Thomas Bernard & Md. Jakir Hussain & Mishaal Masud Sinha, 2016. "Survival of the Cleanest? Evidence from a Plant Level Analysis of Pollutant Emissions in Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 2005-2013," Working Papers 1604E, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.
    2. Lanoie, Paul & Laplante, Benoit & Roy, Maite, 1998. "Can capital markets create incentives for pollution control?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 31-41, July.
    3. Laplante, Benoit & Rilstone, Paul, 1995. "Environmental inspections and emissions of the pulp and paper industry : the case of Quebec," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1447, The World Bank.
    4. Jean-Thomas Bernard & Jakir Hussain & Mishaal Masud Sinha, 2020. "Survival of the cleanest? Evidence from a plant-level analysis of pollutant emissions in Canadian pulp and paper industry, 2005–2013," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 22(2), pages 109-126, April.
    5. Paul Lanoie & Benoit Laplante & Maité Roy, 1997. "Can Capital Markets Create Incentives for Pollution Control?," CIRANO Working Papers 97s-05, CIRANO.
    6. Vincent Di Norcia & Barry Cotton & John Dodge, 1993. "Environmental performance and competitive advantage in Canada's paper industry," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 2(4), pages 1-9, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:17:y:1991:i:1:p:86-105. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Iver Chong (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/cpp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.