Day 292 - 01 Nov 96 - Page 48
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2 MR. MORRIS: I think, with -----
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4 MR. RAMPTON: I shall be saying the same thing, have no fear.
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6 MR. MORRIS: He came out with some very interesting points,
7 I think, that might go down in history.
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9 MR JUSTICE BELL: You might say Mr. Oakley in some respects was
10 the face of truth. Anyway, there we are.
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12 MR. MORRIS: Well, yes. Anyway, on that page, page 37, he says
13 in his statement, I think it is from his statement,
14 "Because the United Kingdom has the only Polystyrene
15 recycling plant in Europe this enables us to use our
16 preferred packaging Polystyrene and to recycle it. This
17 was a pilot scheme for a number of years only involving
18 five plants". So what he is saying, he is trying to
19 justify the national use of Polystyrene on the basis that
20 they are having a pilot scheme, which is completely
21 ridiculous. He is almost saying, you know, 'Shall we have
22 Polystyrene, shall we have paper, Oh, we have got a
23 recycling plant in so and so, so we will go for
24 Polystyrene', which is ridiculous, it was only opened after
25 they used Polystyrene, so it is ridiculous.
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27 Page 37, CFCs in refrigeration in original plants built
28 before 1989. "CFCs in refrigeration does not only involve
29 release when they are destroyed or the manufacturer of
30 those plants, but also when they are topped up every
31 year". That was not actually dealt with at that stage.
32 "It is also used in transportation." He said on page 39,
33 line 30, "Edicts re no CFCs in late 1988." On this subject
34 -- I have not got the reference -- there is a document
35 called 'McDonald's Earth Effort' from McDonald's
36 Corporation in April 1994. I have not got the reference
37 for it, I am sorry, but it is a Defendants document.
38 I have got on A 3 paper, folded over. It must have been
39 recently disclosed during the trial.
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41 It says, "Our refrigeration equipment suppliers will
42 convert from CFC to HCFC refrigerants", ie not CFC free,
43 "by the end of 1994, a year earlier than the government
44 mandated Clean Air Act deadline to eliminate CFC
45 contributions to ozone depletion." Well, that will not
46 eliminate HCFC contributions to ozone depletion. And that
47 is a US document. There is something else about that
48 document. (Pause)
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50 The next point is about the refrigeration figures for CFCs
51 as, something or other... Acting volumes... Great
52 percentage of packaging volumes in CFCs... 41, the USEDF
53 report ignored in the UK. A whole exchange about him not
54 seeing the report. You would have thought that if a
55 corporation had a reputation in this country, as they claim
56 they have in this case, in fact if they had any basis in
57 this country whatsoever, you would expect them to share
58 documents of importance with their UK subsidiary. They did
59 not seem that way.
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