With its beautiful cascading waters, Niagara Falls draws over twelve million visitors a year to stare awestruck at the falls and drink wine from any one of its sixty wineries. In addition to being a tourist attraction, Niagara Falls doubles as an inexpensive source of hydroelectric power for a planned industrial community. However, in the early 1940s the United States government diminished the beauty of this once pristine place. They allowed the Hooker Chemical Company to dump twenty-one tons of chemical waste into the sixteen-acre Love Canal area, named for idealistic and enterpriser William T. Love. The United States government should be financially responsible for the chemical wasteland at Love Canal, because the government initially sanctioned
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There are funds set aside in the country for emergency disasters, which the government can activate under conditions of extreme importance. A study conducted by the University at Buffalo established that when, “…the EPA was directed to conduct a habitability study to assess the risks associated with inhabiting the Love Canal Emergency Declaration Area”. The results of this study proved dire. The land was unlivable due to the immediate health threat that the area posed to the Love Canal residents. The government was able to afford to start a Superfund, which is a program designed to fund long-term projects of toxic waste clean-up. According to the University at Buffalo, the Carter Administration planned a $1.63 billion Superfund for the waste site. Under no circumstance could any entity other than the federal government apply that amount of money for the Love Canal clean-up. The University at Buffalo also reported that, “President Jimmy Carter simultaneously announced the allocation of federal funds and ordered the Federal Disaster Agency to assist the City of Niagara Falls to remedy the Love Canal site”. This showed how influential the government can be in a state of disaster. Neither a company nor town has enough power to initiate the action of the FDA. This exhibits how potent the government is in commencing such a …show more content…
Accompanying all the previous reasons is the fact that the federal government has a duty to protect not only the citizens but also the environment of this country. The government has a variety of resources that need to be used when necessary, such as the Love Canal incident. The Love Canal area is still in remission today, but it stands to reason that this practice of remedy needs to continue for future environmental disasters. Even though the federal government took action in the Love Canal incident, it took many years for that to happen. At the beginning everyone was too busy placing blame that they lost sight of the real goal at hand; that goal was to save the land and remove citizens from the toxic environment. There is still improvement to be done not only at the Love Canal site, but also in the government’s response time. Reparations can be made to the government after the situation has been dealt with, but the response time of the government needs to be improved for future disasters. The government did its duty in the Love Canal incident, but they need to quicken their response to such disasters to assist the
There are funds set aside in the country for emergency disasters, which the government can activate under conditions of extreme importance. A study conducted by the University at Buffalo established that when, “…the EPA was directed to conduct a habitability study to assess the risks associated with inhabiting the Love Canal Emergency Declaration Area”. The results of this study proved dire. The land was unlivable due to the immediate health threat that the area posed to the Love Canal residents. The government was able to afford to start a Superfund, which is a program designed to fund long-term projects of toxic waste clean-up. According to the University at Buffalo, the Carter Administration planned a $1.63 billion Superfund for the waste site. Under no circumstance could any entity other than the federal government apply that amount of money for the Love Canal clean-up. The University at Buffalo also reported that, “President Jimmy Carter simultaneously announced the allocation of federal funds and ordered the Federal Disaster Agency to assist the City of Niagara Falls to remedy the Love Canal site”. This showed how influential the government can be in a state of disaster. Neither a company nor town has enough power to initiate the action of the FDA. This exhibits how potent the government is in commencing such a …show more content…
Accompanying all the previous reasons is the fact that the federal government has a duty to protect not only the citizens but also the environment of this country. The government has a variety of resources that need to be used when necessary, such as the Love Canal incident. The Love Canal area is still in remission today, but it stands to reason that this practice of remedy needs to continue for future environmental disasters. Even though the federal government took action in the Love Canal incident, it took many years for that to happen. At the beginning everyone was too busy placing blame that they lost sight of the real goal at hand; that goal was to save the land and remove citizens from the toxic environment. There is still improvement to be done not only at the Love Canal site, but also in the government’s response time. Reparations can be made to the government after the situation has been dealt with, but the response time of the government needs to be improved for future disasters. The government did its duty in the Love Canal incident, but they need to quicken their response to such disasters to assist the