[CPEO-MEF] Cost of cleaning former Korean bases

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lawmakers grill military leaders over pollution at returned U.S. bases

Yonhap News Agency (S. Korea)
June 25, 2007

SEOUL -- A controversy has erupted over the costs for cleaning up U.S. 
military bases returned to South Korea earlier this year, as former and 
current South Korean defense ministers testified Monday at a 
parliamentary hearing on the viability of the process to get back the bases.

Critics say the government will have to spend at least 2 trillion won 
(US$2.2 billion) in taxpayers' money to clean up roughly 60 U.S. bases 
to be handed over by 2011. They argue almost all of the bases are 
seriously contaminated with oil and heavy metals.

In a report commissioned by the National Assembly, in fact, a local 
professor said a minimum of 600 billion won will be needed to 
decontaminate 23 bases returned earlier this year.


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For the entire article, see
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2007/06/25/25/0301000000AEN20070625002500315F.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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