[CPEO-MEF] S. Korean enviros sue

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Korean environmental groups sue for U.S. base data
Activists allege pollution at sites being returned to South Korea

By Erik Slavin
Stars and Stripes Pacific edition
June 25, 2006



CAMP RED CLOUD, South Korea — Two groups have filed a lawsuit against 
the South Korean Ministry of Environment to gain the release of 
pollution data from U.S. military bases scheduled to be returned to 
South Korea.

Green Korea and the Chuncheon Civic Group claim in a lawsuit filed 
earlier this month that the October 2005 data, some of which was 
acquired by a Seoul newspaper and debated in the national assembly, is 
of overriding interest to the nation’s citizens.

U.S. Forces Korea refused to release any environmental data to Stars and 
Stripes, stating that the status of forces agreement between the United 
States and South Korea prevents it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=38169
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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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