[CPEO-MEF] Tracadie Range, New Brunswick, Canada

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tracadie Range sub-surface bombs still a danger: audit

CBC New Brunswick (Canada)
January 31, 2007

The Department of National Defence has agreed to redo its cleanup of a 
former air force test range in New Brunswick, after a report that found 
parts of the Tracadie Range are an immediate risk to the public.

The Canadian military first started firing on northern New Brunswick 
during the Second World War. The target was 18,000 hectares of land on 
the Acadian Peninsula known as the Tracadie Range.

Now, more than 60 years later, many of those bombs — unexploded 
explosive ordnance, or UXO as the military calls them — are still just 
below the surface.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/01/31/nb-tracadierange.html

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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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