US ship wastes at Subic Bay

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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US ship that dumped waste fined $10,000

Inquirer News Service (Philippines)
August 3, 2004

A US naval ship is being fined $10,000 for dumping human waste into 
Subic Bay.

The US Embassy, however, denied that a US ship had dumped human waste 
and there appeared to be a "misunderstanding."

Local officials earlier said USS Russel was caught discharging human 
waste while anchored off Subic's Alava Pier, but ship personnel 
allegedly accosted officials taking pictures of the dumping.

An organization of Filipino toxic waste victims and environment 
advocates protested the American government's "lack of responsibility to 
the lowest form of waste that its warship dumped into the Subic Bay in 
Zambales on July 27."

"That's pretty much the attitude of the United States military even in 
the US. That's why they are known to be the worst polluter in the 
world," said Myrla Baldonado, executive director of the People's Task 
Force for Bases Cleanup (PTFBC), referring to the contamination of 
overseas bases.

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for the entire article see
http://beta.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=2133

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