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1 company would consider its position in the light of any
2 changes". Do you think it is likely that the company was
3 not aware of this newspaper report in a national newspaper?
4 A. Not at all, and I have never said that. I said there
5 was not concern. What this statement says pretty much is,
6 there was not concern.
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8 Q. Right, but this is March 1987?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. This is before you took any action to speak to Lin Pac to
12 ask them to make the changes?
13 A. Because there was not concern, yes.
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15 Q. But there was concern before you asked to make the changes?
16 A. No.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. Where are you talking about? Might
19 I suggest that you are more precise about where you say the
20 concern was, because you are talking from either a public
21 perception or the concern of Friends of the Earth?
22 Mr. Oakley is talking about the concern of McDonald's. So
23 long as you are talking about concern in one place and he
24 is talking about concern in another, you are never going to
25 meet.
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27 MS. STEEL: OK, right. You would recognise that this indicates
28 some public concern by Friends of the Earth about the use
29 of CFCs in McDonald's packaging and the threat to the ozone
30 layer?
31 A. Certainly Friends of the Earth were concerned; whether
32 the public were concerned, I do not know.
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34 Q. This is before you approached Lin Pac?
35 A. In July 1987.
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37 Q. In July 1987?
38 A. Correct.
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40 Q. To ask them to make changes. So, would you accept that
41 what you said in your statement that there was no public
42 concern, or no concern, before you took this action is
43 incorrect?
44 A. I would not accept that because there was no concern in
45 McDonald's.
46
47 Q. On page 7 of your statement you have said, starting at the
48 very last word of page 6 and going on to page 7: "This
49 decision was taken shortly after the Montreal Protocol and
50 in advance of public concern and general awareness of the
51 environmental damage used by CFCs", I presume that is meant
52 to be "caused by CFCs"?
53 A. Yes, "caused".
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55 Q. That is wrong, is it not?
56 A. Why?
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58 Q. Why? Because you have said that your decision was taken
59 "in advance of public concern and general awareness of the
60 environmental damage caused by CFCs".
