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Professionals from Conservation Group A new conservation group of professional bodies and societies has been launched by Lord Sandford, Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment Known as the Professional Institutions Conservation Group (PICG). this assoclanon is designed to encourage greater hmson and cooperanon between the professions concerned w~th planning, management and development of natural resources This as the outcome of a recommendation from the Professional and Technical Services h a l s o n Committee of the 'Countryside m 1970' Standing Committee that a permanent mterprofesslonal coordinating committee for conservation should be established The Royal Insntutlon of Chartered Surveyors took the mmative of convenmg a meeting of interested professional bodies and breathing hfe into th~s proposal ~t the inaugural meeting at the end of June, the new group dec~ded that its rams would be To encourage greater halson and cooperauon between the professions concerned with the planning, management and development of natural resources including land, air and water; To develop an awareness of the need for a wider knowledge of conservanon and the use of natural resources, To encourage the lnclus~on of conservation m approprmte professional and academic quahfymg courses, To collect, collate and disseminate mformanon. including sources of professional advace, relevant to conservation, To stimulate conservation studies of both parhcular and general application mvolwng mterprofessional collaboration, and To promote lectures and short courses for the better understanding of conservation by the professaons and the pubhc
Russian Whaling The Soviet Umon did not take part m the Stockholm Conference so was not able to make its views known about the US proposal for a total ban on whaling It ~s, however, a member of the International Whaling Commission which ignored the resolution and set new quotas shortly afterwards (see Marme Pollutton Bulletin, 3(8) 116, 1972) Subsequently on August 1, representahves of the Soviet Umon, Japan and Norway signed the agreement to regulate whahng m the Antarctic The agreement went Into effect immediately and continues until the end of the 1972-3 season N~kolal Nosev, head of the Soviet delegation at the IWC meeting, at a recent press interview, defended the IWC declslon and got m a few digs at the United States at the same ume He clmmed that the Sowet Union adheres strictly to the resolutions and recommendations of the Commission's sclenhfic committee (which has an American chmrman) He stud that the Soviet Union welcomes the new arrangement for observers appointed by IWC, m each country's whahng flotillas and shore stations to ensure that international regulanons are complied with 132
Asked for his opinion about the moratorium on whaling proposed by the US delegation, Mr Nosev said 'I can only say we expressed full agreement with the findings of the Commission's scientific committee and that these findings were fully endorsed not only by the majority of the delegations but specifically by the sclennfic committee's American chairman, Dr Chapman--namely, that the proposed moratorium was unwarranted and that no sc~ennfic grounds and no necessity emsted for prohlbmng all whaling 'As I see ~t, whatever the reasons were, ~t was certainly not humanitarian reasons that prompted the United States to insist suddenly th~s year on total proh~blnon of whaling--which, I repeat, the Soviet Union conducts in full accordance with mternanonal regulations and the recommendations of the scientific research bodies 'I base my judgement on the fact, which emerged in d~scuss~on at the Commlss~on's London meeting, that m d~fferent ways and c~rcumstances Americans are destroymg 250,000 dolphins a year--the equivalent of 2,500 whales Note that the Umted States' whahng quota m 1972 was 150 whales' Asked about regulahons for catching dolphins m the Sowet Union, Mr Nosev said the catching of dolphins m the Soviet Union has stopped completely It was m fact Soviet fishermen themselves who had first proposed halting it 'Again, for the sake of comparison,' the Soviet delegate sa~d, 'I may say that the hunting of polar bears is totally prohibited m the USSR Yet this beautiful and increasingly rare ammal is stdl being hunted m the Umted States, m Alaska'
You Get What You Pay For It has been said often enough that pollunon control ~s expenswe and if a commumty wants a cleaner environment at must pay for it. Fine words are one thing, but paying is another as the State of New York has discovered The New York State Department of Envtronmental Conservation has halted processing plans for 157 new sewage treatment projects with an estimated cost of $1 5 bllhon because of inadequate funds from State and Federal sources So much for complamt~ about the sewage treatment problems of New York
TAPS Trials The Trans Alaska Plpehne System (TAPS) to brmg oll from the North Slope to Valdez in the south of the State far from sinking Into the tundra is still bogged down in lltlganon Oll companies, having spent about £800 million on the oflfield, have not yet been able to extract a drop of oll and now cannot expect to do s o - at least via the plpehne--before 1976 at the earhest This is beginning to have financial repercussions Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohlo) bought its way into the North Slope ollfield m a complicated deal with BP and also has a 27½ per cent stake m the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company which wdl bmld the pipeline The cost of the latter has escalated from $300 mdhon to $900 mdhon and one way and another, Sohlo's long-term debt has increased from $85 mllhon m 1968 to $494 mdhon Atlantic Richfield is reported to be 'm an even more uncomfortable strait-jacket"
Russian Whaling The Soviet Umon did not take part m the Stockholm Conference so was not able to make its views known about the US proposal for a total ban on whaling It ~s, however, a member of the International Whaling Commission which ignored the resolution and set new quotas shortly afterwards (see Marme Pollutton Bulletin, 3(8) 116, 1972) Subsequently on August 1, representahves of the Soviet Umon, Japan and Norway signed the agreement to regulate whahng m the Antarctic The agreement went Into effect immediately and continues until the end of the 1972-3 season N~kolal Nosev, head of the Soviet delegation at the IWC meeting, at a recent press interview, defended the IWC declslon and got m a few digs at the United States at the same ume He clmmed that the Sowet Union adheres strictly to the resolutions and recommendations of the Commission's sclenhfic committee (which has an American chmrman) He stud that the Soviet Union welcomes the new arrangement for observers appointed by IWC, m each country's whahng flotillas and shore stations to ensure that international regulanons are complied with 132
Asked for his opinion about the moratorium on whaling proposed by the US delegation, Mr Nosev said 'I can only say we expressed full agreement with the findings of the Commission's scientific committee and that these findings were fully endorsed not only by the majority of the delegations but specifically by the sclennfic committee's American chairman, Dr Chapman--namely, that the proposed moratorium was unwarranted and that no sc~ennfic grounds and no necessity emsted for prohlbmng all whaling 'As I see ~t, whatever the reasons were, ~t was certainly not humanitarian reasons that prompted the United States to insist suddenly th~s year on total proh~blnon of whaling--which, I repeat, the Soviet Union conducts in full accordance with mternanonal regulations and the recommendations of the scientific research bodies 'I base my judgement on the fact, which emerged in d~scuss~on at the Commlss~on's London meeting, that m d~fferent ways and c~rcumstances Americans are destroymg 250,000 dolphins a year--the equivalent of 2,500 whales Note that the Umted States' whahng quota m 1972 was 150 whales' Asked about regulahons for catching dolphins m the Sowet Union, Mr Nosev said the catching of dolphins m the Soviet Union has stopped completely It was m fact Soviet fishermen themselves who had first proposed halting it 'Again, for the sake of comparison,' the Soviet delegate sa~d, 'I may say that the hunting of polar bears is totally prohibited m the USSR Yet this beautiful and increasingly rare ammal is stdl being hunted m the Umted States, m Alaska'
You Get What You Pay For It has been said often enough that pollunon control ~s expenswe and if a commumty wants a cleaner environment at must pay for it. Fine words are one thing, but paying is another as the State of New York has discovered The New York State Department of Envtronmental Conservation has halted processing plans for 157 new sewage treatment projects with an estimated cost of $1 5 bllhon because of inadequate funds from State and Federal sources So much for complamt~ about the sewage treatment problems of New York
TAPS Trials The Trans Alaska Plpehne System (TAPS) to brmg oll from the North Slope to Valdez in the south of the State far from sinking Into the tundra is still bogged down in lltlganon Oll companies, having spent about £800 million on the oflfield, have not yet been able to extract a drop of oll and now cannot expect to do s o - at least via the plpehne--before 1976 at the earhest This is beginning to have financial repercussions Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohlo) bought its way into the North Slope ollfield m a complicated deal with BP and also has a 27½ per cent stake m the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company which wdl bmld the pipeline The cost of the latter has escalated from $300 mdhon to $900 mdhon and one way and another, Sohlo's long-term debt has increased from $85 mllhon m 1968 to $494 mdhon Atlantic Richfield is reported to be 'm an even more uncomfortable strait-jacket"