Williams Heavy Industries

We believe that the current economic downturn is the perfect time to reconsider some of the many government regulations that have served to constrain the progress of forward-looking companies like WHI.  We invite you to join us in our 'WHI Not?' symposium - an open discussion about ways to turn back the tide of burdensome government regulation in the US and hopefully spark a national conversation on the need for the kind of unfettered industrial growth that will grow American jobs.  America is the greatest country on earth.  'WHI Not' overturn years of run-away government regulation?  'WHI Not' make it easier to create the jobs that will insure a brighter future for our children?  'WHI Not' allow American businesses at least as much oportunity at unregulated growth as you might find in Bolivia?  'WHI Not', indeed.

A few facts that you may be shocked to learn:

• The US ban on the use of DDT whcih included our highly-effective products, 'Silent Cornfield' and 'Weavel-Be-Gone', lead to the relocation of our central Alabama production facilities to our ill-fated plant in northern India and resulted in the loss of dozens of American jobs.  This ban not only continues to deny us one the the world's largest markets for these successful products; it also denies the American people the benefits of their use.
• The federal restrictions against mining and exploratory drilling in our national parks and preserves severely inhibits our ability to make productive use of some of the last unharvested lands in our great country.
• Our nation is blessed with an abundance of water and vast open space.  But did you know that to some extent the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, despite their feel-good names, actually make it more difficult to fully use the bountiful water and air to dispose of our industrial waste?
• Despite our preimminence as a world power, the US ranks 47th* in the amount of regulation that American industry must tolerate.