[CPEO-MEF] 14 South Korean bases need cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

14 U.S. bases returned to S.K. still lack environmental cleanup
Seoul, Washington at odds over needed procedures, including soil 
decontamination

The Hankyoreh (S. Korea)
April 14, 2007
	
While the United States agreed with South Korea in July last year to 
return its military bases after cleaning up environmental contamination 
there, 14 bases were formally returned on April 13 without completion of 
cleanup or rehabilitation.

Accordingly, the South Korean government will use taxpayers' money to 
clean up contaminated soil and other waste remaining on the grounds of 
the former U.S. military bases. The Ministry of Environment predicted 
this will cost as much as 40 billion won (US$42 million), but private 
environmental organizations say the budget will be in the hundreds of 
billions of won.


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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/202976.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>
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