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Willful Blindness? [1]

Regulatory Failures Behind the Lac-Mégantic Disaster
Author(s): 
Bruce Campbell [2]
August 18, 2014
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This report, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell details eight key ways in which regulatory failure contributed to the Lac-Mégantic disaster. It chronicles how Canada's federal regulatory regime failed – directly and indirectly – to prevent corporate negligence, for which the citizens of Lac-Mégantic paid a terrible price.

The report calls for an independent inquiry into the disaster. Part of the challenge in preventing another Lac-Mégantic is to keep the spotlight on its root causes – corporate negligence and regulatory failure – and hold to account those responsible, including those at the highest level of the responsibility pyramid.

Click here [4] to read a blog post based on the report. 

Offices: 
National Office [5]
Issue: 
Corporations and corporate power [6]
Energy policy [7]

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[1] https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/willful-blindness [2] https://policyalternatives.ca/authors/bruce-campbell [3] https://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2014/08/Willful_Blindness.pdf [4] http://behindthenumbers.ca/2014/08/18/ten-areas-of-regulatory-failure-that-contributed-directly-or-indirectly-to-the-lac-megantic-disaster/ [5] https://policyalternatives.ca/offices/national [6] https://policyalternatives.ca/issues/corporations-and-corporate-power [7] https://policyalternatives.ca/issues/energy-policy