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Ontario Acrylic Painters Art for Sale | Canadian Paintings Pandora's Trojan Horse Borrows Without Regret Giant Gold Mine operated a mine in Yellowknife for a little over 60 years. After they had extracted all of the gold, they walked away leaving an arsenic contaminated site, clean up will cost almost 1 billion dollars. Sydney Steel and various other companies operated coke ovens in Sydney Nova Scotia for almost 100 years, eventually the ovens were closed down. Clean up costs are 400 million dollar, tax payers pick up the tab for both of these cleanups. A negative externality is when someone else covers the debt a company builds up, Climate Change is the most obvious example of this. Some companies who are primarily focused on profits pollute, there by running up a massive tab in environmental and climate damage. Society both environmentally and financially is often left with the tab when the gold, or steel, or bitumen is no longer profitable to produce. Some estimates put the cost we are paying for climate change caused droughts, storms, flooding, rising sea levels, and melting permafrost, globally today at 1.2 trillion dollars a year. Climate Change is, and will increasingly affect the bottom line for economies and food supplies worldwide.

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