[CPEO-MEF] "No traces" of Agent Orange at Subic Bay

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No traces of 'Agent Orange' in Subic ? SBMA

By Bebot Sison Jr.
The Philippine Star 
February 3, 2005

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - Officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) assured residents, investors and visitors to the Subic Bay
Freeport Zone yesterday that there are no traces of "Agent Orange," a
toxic chemical used by the United States military in the Vietnam War, in
the former American naval base. 

Reynaldo Garcia, SBMA public relations office head, told The STAR that a
news report saying that Agent Orange was shipped from New Zealand to
Vietnam through the former Subic military base "should not be a cause
for alarm." 

Garcia said the report originated from a New Zealand official who was
quoted as saying that "products used to make Agent Orange were shipped
from New Plymouth to Subic Bay in the Philippines." 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200502039902.htm



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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