G8 to meet on polluted stretch of Georgia coast

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Submitted by Eve Bach, ARC Ecology <evebach@mindspring.com>:

Bush holds his summit amid the toxic waste sites

Georgia beauty spot chosen by President for G8 summit lies along one
of America's most polluted stretches of coast

By Michael Williams in Sea Island, Georgia and Geoffrey Lean
The Independent (UK)
16 May 2004

Bush holds his summit amid the toxic waste sites 

Geoffrey Lean: How Rupert Murdoch saved the planet (and other tall
stories)  

President George Bush is to bring leaders of the world's richest to Sea
Island next month to showcase his "environmental stewardship".

But the island - the most beautiful of the sub-tropical Golden Isles off
the Georgia coast - is in one of the most polluted areas of the American
South. Glynn County, which contains Sea Island - the site of next
month's G8 summit - is home to 16 hazardous waste plants.

A nearby polluting paper mill is being closed down while the leaders of
the world's richest countries, including Tony Blair, are in the neighbourhood.

The locals describe the island as "somewhere between Venice and heaven".
The 18th-century colonists from England thought it was the Garden of
Eden, and it certainly must have seemed like paradise to the President's
parents, George Snr and Barbara Bush, when they honey-mooned here 50
years ago.

Bush family sentiment is thought to be one of the reasons President Bush
is bringing the world's leaders here for the summit on 8 June. The salt
marshes and lazy creeks are also host to a proliferation of vegetation
and wildlife, making the area possibly the most environmentally
important on America's East Coast.
...

for the entire story, see
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=521752

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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