12-14-2007, 03:13 AM
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Engineering first
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Real Name: Bob
Location: Huntsville, AL
Hybrids: Prius Classic 03
Posts: 4,746
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Re: biodiesel vs. hybrid emissions
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Originally Posted by centrider
You know, this is not a first here. I'm looking for a primary source.
While one picture is worth a thousand words, two even in this case are worthless to me because these photos lack attribution. The picts could have been taken anywhere - or Photoshopped anywhere.
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In this case, we have the original source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
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Daily Mail
Toyota factory
Last updated at 09:34am on 9th May 2007
It has come to our attention that a story originally published in the Mail on Sunday has apparently been misinterpreted by some of our readers. In order to prevent further misinterpretation, we have removed the article from our website. The following letter was published in the Mail on Sunday on May 13, 2007: Your article about the Inco nickel factory at Sudbury, Canada, wrongly implied that poisonous fumes from the factory had left the area looking like a lunar landscape because so many plants and trees had died. You also sought to blame Toyota because the nickel is used, among countless other purposes, for making the Prius hybrid car batteries.
In fact any damage occurred more than thirty years ago, long before the Prius was made. Since then, Inco has reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than 90 per cent and has helped to plant more than 11 million trees.
The company has won praise from the Ontario Ministry of Environment and environmental groups. Sudbury has won several conservation awards and is a centre for eco-tourism.
Dave Rado
Colchester
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In the UK, the libel laws would put the "Daily Mail" at risk if they had continued to publish and support this blatant lie by Martin Delgado. I would be careful about repeating it if I were a Canadian.
Bob Wilson
Last edited by bwilson4web : 12-14-2007 at 04:32 AM.
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