[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO) natural resource damage case

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AG vows to press case over arsenal pollution
John Suthers plans to seek $100 million from Shell and the Army because 
of tainted groundwater.

By Jennifer Brown
Denver Post
May 11, 2007

Attorney General John Suthers - armed with $1.9 million recently 
allotted by state lawmakers - vowed Thursday to seek about $100 million 
in damages for pollution at Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

Shell Oil Co. and the U.S. Army have spent $2.2 billion cleaning up the 
site, and part of the one-time manufacturing complex for mustard-gas 
weapons and napalm has been turned into a wildlife refuge.

But Colorado is owed up to $100 million for groundwater contamination 
that no amount of cleanup can erase, Suthers said.

"They can't clean this up," he said. "We've been deprived of a huge 
amount of groundwater."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_5867357

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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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