Communities will benefit from improved quality of life and well being through lower greenhouse emissions, lower particulate emissions, higher efficiency in electricity generation, lower residual waste, lower prices, less nuclear power and less air pollution problems. ... The Gorgons claim to be able to compensate for the negative externalities by enforcing environmental management, risk management and offsets (actions taken to compensate for an unavoidable loss of one or more environmental value), but environmentalists claim that these actions will not be substantial to the damage the developm...

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In an attempt to attract foreign savings or earn higher export revenues has resulted in businesses engaging in un-environmentally friendly activities. ... For example, between 2005 and 2007, 2 million motorbikes were registered in Vietnam (and many more were unregistered), subsequently increasing pollution and placing pressure on Vietnam's infrastructure. ... However, Vietnam's external stability and environmental quality has been negatively affected as the benefits of globalisation has been unevenly distributed across the economy....

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