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Regulation for environmental protection: The Nanticoke industrial complex, Ontario, Canada

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This assessment of the environmental protection regulatory system for the $2.2 billion iron and steel plant, oil refinery, and thermal generating station composing the core of the greenfield Nanticoke industrial complex is based upon: the use of governmental and industrial research in project management; technology and institutional arrangements for environmental protection; evidence of environmental changes to date; analysis of government and industrial approval files; and interviews with government, industry, and interest group representatives. Planning, regulation, and management have been reasonably efficient and effective to the beginning of the operational stage for all three major industries as of spring 1980. Of major future concern, however, is management of the cumulative and synergistic impacts of the industries and associated development on air quality as well as the lands, waters, and sensitive ecosystems of the nearby Lake Erie coast. Continuous monitoring, more comprehensive research, and better overall coordination of government, industrial, and public interests are required if Nanticoke benefits are to be achieved without undue cost to pre-project resource users within and outside the Haldimand-Norfolk region.

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  1. Department of Geography Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontaria, Canada

    J. G. Nelson & Sabine Jessen

  2. Natural Resources Management Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

    J. C. Day

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Nelson, J.G., Day, J.C. & Jessen, S. Regulation for environmental protection: The Nanticoke industrial complex, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Management 5, 385–395 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01866817

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