[CPEO-MEF] Waste barrels in Lake Superior

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

John Laforge: There's still no clarity on toxic waste in Superior

Half a century after barrels were dumped at 16 or more sites, we're 
waiting for answers about safety and accountability.

John Laforge
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
August 21, 2007

A lot has been written about the 1,448-plus barrels of toxic and 
probably radioactive wastes that were dumped into Lake Superior by the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

You can get a very good, 100-page compilation of news accounts and 
analysis at the UPS Store on Arrowhead Road in Duluth for less than the 
cost of dinner out. It's a good read if your stomach can handle official 
graft, military contractor fraud, mobster-like "cement shoe treatment" 
of industrial trash, and bureaucratic dismissals of precautionary alarms.

The public might want to know why no agency, corporation or individual 
has ever been held accountable for the illegal dumping, why the full 
extent of the dumping has never been disclosed, why the contents of the 
barrels have never been fully made known and why "the mystery of 
radioactive waste is still out there," as Ron Swenson of the Minnesota 
Pollution Control Agency's barrels investigation and oversight unit once 
said.

The wastes came from the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, Minnesota's 
largest Superfund site, which at the time was run by Honeywell.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/1373380.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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