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A new report says Canadian companies spewed 73% more air pollution per facility in 2002 than their counterparts in the United States. The report, Partners in Pollution: An Assessment of Continuing Canada and United States Contributions to Great Lakes Pollution, says Canadian and U.S. companies combined dumped more than 101 million kilograms of pollution into the air that year, with Canadian factories contributing 49,471,016 kilograms of what it calls total air releases, while U.S. factories accounting for 52,436,225 kilograms. Pollution Watch partners, Environmental Defence and the Canadian Environmental Law Association, released the report in February 2006. Pollution Watch is a project of both organizations and it tracks the releases and transfers of pollutants across Canada according to Environment Canada data.
"The health of the Great Lakes is in real trouble because we forget pollution is still a real issue", says Paul Muldoon, executive director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association, in Toronto. "We call on the new Canadian government to seize this opportunity to set an agenda...