Should we send the bill to Bush?

[justinsb]

Study shows more than half of Ontario's smog from U.S., costing $5.2B

KEITH LESLIE Thu Jun 16, 3:05 PM ET

TORONTO (CP) - More than half of the air pollution hanging over Ontario comes from the United States and costs Canada's most populous province $5.2 billion a year in health and environmental damage, says a new study released Thursday.

The study, based on 30 years of data and commissioned by the Ontario government, shows air pollution costs the province $9.6 billion a year and estimates that 55 per cent of those costs can be blamed on smog blowing into Canada from across the border.

"The great majority of the economic losses. . .are attributable to premature mortality," the report says. "Of a predicted 4,881 premature deaths, 56 per cent or 2,751 are associated with U.S. emissions."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050616/ca_pr_on_na/ont_smog_border

[Beaver Tail]

1. And Bush had the balls

to tell China to clean up its problems with pollution

[iverglas]

2. unless things have changed a lot ...

... I would think that Bush (or one of those border-state governors or two) would be sending us a big bill right back. And in yankee dollars.

Isn't Ontario itself a rather bad offender on the air pollution front, and doesn't a fair bit of our pollution make its way south of the border?