[CPEO-MEF] Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) and Chemical Waste Management

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

ENVIRONMENT: Conflict of interest on county LOOW project?

By Aaron Besecker
Niagara Gazette (NY)
June 29, 2007


A representative from CWM Chemical Services is raising questions about a 
radiological waste expert hired for a Niagara County Health Department 
project, an expert also working for an attorney paid to fight the 
hazardous waste landfill's expansion proposal.

CWM spokeswoman Lori Caso said she is "disappointed" in the hiring of 
Marvin Resnikoff for consulting work on the county's Community LOOW Project.

...

CWM, the Northeast's only active hazardous waste landfill, is located on 
the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site. Part of the site is being 
used to store radioactive waste from atomic weapons production, and its 
World War II-era contamination is being investigated by the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_180131535.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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