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Water dampens U.S.-Canadian relations
Abstract
U. S. behavior in its environmental relations with Canada, especially concerning acid rain, is indicative of recent U. S. unwillingness to cooperate with the world community on environmental issues.
Acid rain is a serious problem in Canada-U.S. relations. A divergence exists between the Canadian and U.S. positions on acid rain, for reasons of geography, economics, and political ideology. The United States, whose position has been reactive to Canada, has taken such an uncompromising stance that treaty and agreement violations can be alleged. The issue has risen to the multilateral as well as bilateral level. Canada has called for a 50% reduction in pollution emissions causing acid rain. The United States could respond with a credible compromise if it chose to do so. This could then be readily implemented. The position of the United States seems to be an unwillingness to compromise, resulting in environmental, economic, and political damage.
Public policies in the Great Lakes have traditionally developed in an ad hoc manner as specific issues occurred. Recently, the transboundary pollution problems have caused this historical approach to become inadequate. Key policy issues now are acid rain, water quality, and lake levels and quantity. These policy issues were examined to help define research needs in the atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences so as to help resolve future policy issues. However, policy development and in-depth documentation of policies are needed for the Great Lakes to enable development of sound research agenda.
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