Day 060 - 02 Dec 94 - Page 32
1 A. Public concern, yes.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is being put to you is, by the same
4 token as it was wrong to put September 1988 in the
5 penultimate line on page 6 because you, in fact, took the
6 decision in the previous year?
7 A. Right.
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9 Q. And sometime in the summer of the previous year?
10 A. It was before Montreal, yes, OK.
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12 Q. By the same token, it was before rather than after the
13 Montreal Protocol?
14 A. That is correct, yes, that is correct.
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16 MS. STEEL: The decision to change was made after publicly
17 expressed concerns about the use of CFCs in packaging
18 causing damage to the ozone layer.
19 A. Where is this?
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21 Q. I am putting that to you.
22 A. Oh, sorry, say it again.
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24 Q. The decision made by McDonald's to change and stop using
25 CFCs was made after publicly expressed concerns about the
26 use of CFCs in packaging causing damage to the ozone layer?
27 A. Absolutely wrong.
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29 Q. That is wrong?
30 A. Yes.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: It depends whether Ms. Steel means "after" or
33 "because of".
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35 MS. STEEL: The witness has said it is wrong, full stop.
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37 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I know, but maybe he did not understand the
38 question.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It must have been after the expression of
41 some public expressed concerns, because the concerns of the
42 Antarctic expedition were publicly expressed, very publicly
43 expressed. It was as a result of that public expression
44 that you took the attitude you did, you told us?
45 A. I agree with "some", but that is not what was said.
46 You did not say "some", you said "public concern".
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48 MS. STEEL: "Publicly expressed concern".
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, that was the difference. It was "public
51 expressed concern" rather than "public concern". It may
52 have been, I cannot say what was in Ms. Steel's mind when
53 she asked the question, but those were the words she used.
54 Put it another way. We have got slightly at cross
55 purposes. It may amount to the same thing. Shall I try
56 and then you take it on?
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58 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There have obviously been publicly expressed
