[CPEO-MEF] Alaska military cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$1B Cleanup of Alaska Bases Drags On


By JEANNETTE J. LEE/Associated Press Writer
Guardian Unlimited (UK)
August 25, 2007

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Like countless generations of Yup'ik Eskimos, 
George Noongwook's grandfather once pulled salmon and trout from the 
Suqitughneq River on St. Lawrence Island. But Noongwook has never done so.

The whaling captain from the village of Savoonga worries that the 
remnants of a 180,000-gallon diesel fuel spill from a deserted Cold War 
surveillance site will make him sick.

"There hasn't been anyone fishing there in my lifetime because all the 
fish died," said Noongwook, 58. "They're back now, but everyone knows it 
is contaminated so they go elsewhere."

The old Northeast Cape Air Force base, 140 miles from the Russian 
mainland, is one of at least 640 contaminated military installations 
across Alaska dating from World War II and the Cold War.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6874677,00.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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