From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 27 Mar 2006 17:40:40 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Viequenses (PR) ask - "Where's the cleanup?" |
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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