RE: [CPEO-MEF] Cost of cleaning former Korean bases

["Peter Schlesinger" <pschles3@comcast.net>]

I just can't wait to see what will be the long term healthcare and cleanup
costs for Iraq and Afghanistan. I've been thinking about all that RDX, HMX,
lead, DNT, perchlorate, depleted uranium, and subsequent daughter products
of their breakdown hitting the drinking water supplies of those nations.
Maybe if we had Congress legislate that healthcare and cleanup costs be
added to the costs of war, we could convince any  leader in the White House
that it wasn't in our self-interest to drop / fire these poisonous nasties,
let alone create them, in the first place?

Peter Schlesinger, Citizen Member
Massachusetts Military Reservation Impact Area Review Team

-----Original Message-----
From: military-bounces@list.cpeo.org [mailto:military-bounces@list.cpeo.org]
On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:47 PM
To: Military Environmental Forum
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Cost of cleaning former Korean bases

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/2007/06/25/25/0301000000AEN20070625
002500315F.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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