[CPEO-MEF] Remote Canadian base cleaned up

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former military site cleaned up

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting)
March 23, 2006

The cleanup of contaminated soil and asbestos at the Kittigazuit 
military site near Tuktoyaktuk, which began three years ago, is finally 
complete.

The Northwest Territories base was built in 1947 as a long-range 
navigation site.

After it was closed in 1950, the federal government used it as a waste 
metal depot.

Department of Indian and Northern Affairs official Emma Pike says the 
cleanup took longer than expected because there was more contamination 
than they thought.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/kittigazuit-cleanup23032006.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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