[CPEO-MEF] Shipbreaking - Not in California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Political red tape big reason ships leave California

By Elise Hamner
Coos Bay World (OR)
April 27, 2006

Gary Whitney has watched the ebb and flow of mothballed military ships 
year after year at Suisun Bay, Calif.

His company often tows them, one after the other, down through the 
Panama Canal and up to Brownsville, Texas. There, shipbreakers clean out 
hazardous materials, such as asbestos, PCBs and residual fuels. They cut 
up the steel for recycling.

For a decade, he's watched managers at industrial companies dream about 
ways to open up West Coast facilities to dismantle those ships. No one 
has succeeded. For eight years, Whitney's been a dreamer, too. And he 
thinks he has the best plan yet.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2006/04/27/news/news02042706.txt

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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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