[CPEO-MEF] Canadian Defence cleanup costs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cost of cleaning contaminated military sites estimated at almost $450 
million

JOHN WARD
Macleans
June 23, 2006

OTTAWA (CP) - The tab for cleaning up military sites tainted by 
everything from asbestos to toxic chemicals and dud bombs and shells 
will come to at least $450 million over the next decade.

And although not all this money will come from the Defence budget, the 
estimate also doesn't count a number of problems still being studied. 
The contaminated sites are scattered across the country, from Goose Bay 
in Newfoundland and Labrador, to Valcartier, Que., and the British 
Columbia interior. As well, there are a number of offshore sites where 
Second World War ammunition stocks and even chemical weapons were dumped 
at sea long before the era of environmental awareness.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/news/shownews.jsp?content=n062317A

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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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