It's even in the United States. With the Bush administration, for instance, a very serious thing occurred. The Bush-Cheney administration allowed the energy companies to enter public lands, public forest lands, forest reserves, and those areas were impacted and undermined. Lots of people rose up to say, “No planning is going on. What's going on? What's going to happen to the wildlife and all the things around these places?”
The whole theme of cumulative effects is politically laced. It's very difficult to get these things done because there isn't an atmosphere to tolerate them.