[CPEO-MEF] Suisun Bay ghost fleet - commentary

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Putting the ghost fleets to rest

Commentary by Saul Bloom
Contra Costa Times (CA)
July 7, 2007

THE SCURRIED activities that resulted from Arc Ecology's release of the 
Maritime Administration's report on the potential pollution from the 
Suisun mothball fleet is like watching that great scene in the movie 
"Casablanca" when Claude Rains declares: "Gambling in Casablanca, I'm 
shocked!!" and then collects his winnings.

The condition of the mothball fleet has been well known for decades. So 
well known that there are congressional testimony and reports on the 
subject dating almost two decades.

The simple fact is that these mothball, or ghost fleets as they are 
sometimes called, shed toxic contamination into the nation's bays and 
rivers wherever they are.

Like blighted communities, sheets of paint peel off ships when they 
aren't cared for. Sea growth of the kind bearding these vessels doesn't 
just happen, nor do invasive species survive for decades within a bilge 
without negligence on the part of the agency responsible for maintenance.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_6321643?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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