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1 Montreal Protocol was signed?
2 A. As I explained earlier, I have read the Antarctic
3 Expedition Reports and I felt it prudent to make the
4 change. I thought it was inevitable that something like
5 the Montreal Protocol would occur, and I personally
6 thought, this was not a company direction, I personally
7 thought it was a prudent thing to do environmentally.
8
9 Q. As you have told us, the company were persuaded by you in
10 due course. Did you have much of a struggle?
11 A. I struggled all round at that time with the company and
12 with Lin Pac, because nobody really wanted to take this
13 situation as seriously as I saw it.
14
15 Q. If we turn over two pages to page 510 X -- this time it
16 really is an X -- a letter from Lin Pac dated 26th November
17 1987 again to Mr. Wootton at McDonald's in this country;
18 I only really want to ask you about the first part of it:
19 "Dear Ted, on behalf of Peter and myself, it was a
20 pleasure to meet you at Featherstone" -- that is where the
21 plant is, the Lin Pac plant, in Yorkshire?
22 A. That is correct.
23
24 Q. -- "today, when we had the opportunity to discuss the
25 points raised at the meeting Peter had with Ed and yourself
26 on 11th November". Do you know, Mr. Oakley, who are the
27 "Peter" and the "Ed" referred to in that paragraph?
28 A. "Peter" is Peter O'Shea who was then Production
29 Director and "Ed" is myself.
30
31 Q. Then he writes: "I would like to cover the progress and
32 steps taken as per the agenda". I will come back to those
33 words in a minute. "1. Freon to Pentane. We will be doing
34 trials and will submit samples end December/early January",
35 1988 that is, "but will not be in a position to switch
36 totally until April as we have to alter the reclaim system
37 so that we get complete segregation on Freon and Pentane
38 scrap". I am not going to ask you about that; the
39 Defendants can if they are interested. But what I want to
40 know is, what does he mean, do you know, by his reference
41 to "the agenda"?
42 A. I am sorry, say that again?
43
44 Q. Do you know what Mr. Marshall means when he says: "I would
45 like to cover the progress and steps taken as per the
46 agenda". Do you know what he means by "the agenda"?
47 A. Well, the agenda he had for the meeting, presumably.
48
49 Q. I see. Then over the page.
50
51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is not an agenda in the sense of a timed
52 plan ---
53 A. No, it was meeting agenda.
54
55 Q. -- these things to fall into place?
56
57 MR. RAMPTON: Then if you turn over, please, to 510 AA which is
58 four pages on; 3rd December 1987 from Lin Pac to
59 Mr. Wootton again. I should have asked you this before
60 moving on to this next letter about Mr. O'Shea and
