From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 9 Sep 2007 18:02:30 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Lac St. Pierre, Quebec UXO |
DND to start removing thousands of ammunition shells from lake Marianne White CanWest News Service September 9, 2007For almost 50 years, the Department of National Defence pounded Lac St. Pierre, near Trois-Rivieres, Que., with shells as big as 155 millimetres -- the size of a big fire log -- to test its ammunition. The area has been dubbed a minefield and DND maintains a year round "caution zone," including floating signs on the lake, to advise boaters and others users of the danger of ordnance lurking underwater. Local residents have been lobbying DND for years to remove an estimated 8,000 live shells from the lake's bottom. And they finally have a first victory. ... For the entire article, see http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=dbe471ca-9114-49a1-900b-813aa5e69fe6&k=87244 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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