[CPEO-MEF] Viequenses (PR) ask - "Where's the cleanup?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Islanders ask: Where's the cleanup?
Military exercises have ended on Vieques, but existing ordnance could 
take years to explode
	
By Ray Quintanilla
Chicago Tribune
March 27, 2006

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico -- Three years after U.S. military exercises were 
halted here, tempers still run hot when residents recall six decades of 
naval bombardments that transformed parts of this tropical island 
paradise into lands resembling the surface of the moon.

These days, residents' hostilities are centered on why it is taking the 
U.S. government so long to begin what surely will become among the most 
ambitious Superfund cleanup campaigns in American history.

But while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says its plans are 
progressing on schedule, this bit of news is serving to stoke fresh 
local hostilities: Bombs are going off in Vieques again, and the blasts 
may last eight years or more.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0603270149mar27,1,7622827.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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