[CPEO-MEF] Cape Christian (Nunavut, Canada) U.S. Coast Guard Station

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cape Christian clean-up to start next year
Remediation of derelict radar site to create 41 full-time jobs

JANE GEORGE
Nunatsiaq News (Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada)
October 5, 2007

Next summer, Qikiqtaaluk Logistics Inc. will start a clean-up at Cape 
Christian, a derelict radar site about 16 kilometres northeast of Clyde 
River.

The $11.1 million operation will focus on several dump areas littered 
with solid waste and barrels. Many of the buildings still on site 
contain asbestos and are covered with PCB and lead-based paint.

Cape Christian, established by the United States Coast Guard as a 
long-range navigation site in 1954, was abandoned in 1974.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/71005_573.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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