[CPEO-MEF] BAE's "environmentally friendly" arms

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arms company on target for eco-friendly bullets

Sam Bond
Environmental Data Interactive (UK)
September 21, 2006

British weapons manufacturer BAE Systems is working on lead-free bullets 
and a range of other environmentally friendly armaments in an effort to 
reduce battlefield contamination and health risks for the armed forces.

A spokesperson for the company told edie it was in response to a request 
from the MoD to produce less environmentally hazardous weaponry and also 
in keeping with BAE's corporate social responsibility guidelines.

...

Symon Hill, a spokesman for the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, told 
edie he believed the plans were little more than a greenwash.

...

"The real way you can reduce the damage is by not selling weapons to 
governments that could be spending their huge arms budgets on 
environmental protection."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=12027&channel=0

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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