[CPEO-MEF] VX (nerve agent) neutralent treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DuPont wooing locals for VX support

By JEAN JONES
Bridgeton News (NJ)
November 24, 2006

COMMERCIAL TWP. DuPont apparently has been offering to sweeten the pot 
for those communities supporting the Army's proposal to have effluent 
from primary treatment of VX nerve gas further treated in Salem County 
and discharged into the Delaware River.

Maurice River is hoping for a boardwalk to the Thompson's Beach 
waterfront and already has rescinded its original resolution opposing 
the VX plan.

The Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, at Bivalve, has made its bid 
for an unspecified amount of money to support revitalization of the 
Delaware Bay oyster industry.

In a Nov. 10 letter to DuPont program manager Todd Owens, lab director 
Dr. Eric Powell thanked DuPont for its recent presentation regarding the 
plan and suggested four areas where DuPont could assist the industry.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1164347791308250.xml&coll=10

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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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