[CPEO-MEF] Ordnance on Canadian native reserves

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dozens of reserves may have explosives danger

STEVE RENNIE
The Canadian Press
Toronto Globe & Mail (ONT)
November 25, 2007

OTTAWA - Abandoned explosives from military training exercises could be 
scattered across more than two dozen native reserves in Canada, a newly 
released document says.

A Defence Department list cites 25 reserves potentially laden with 
discarded explosives, ranging from Second World War-era bombs to 
anti-tank mortars and even torpedoes.

The accounting of 731 so-called legacy sites, prepared in April, was 
obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. It 
details the locations of sites that may contain so-called unexploded 
ordnance (UXOs) - military jargon for weapons that have yet to detonate.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071125.wexplosives1125/BNStory/National/home

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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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