[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS - Former Canadian Forces Base Rivers (MAN)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wanted: firm to scour hog farm for abandoned military explosives

The Canadian Press
February 17, 2008

OTTAWA - A hog farm on a former air force base in southern Manitoba 
could be laden with Second World War-era explosives, and the federal 
government wants to hire someone to scour the area for any remnants.

The government issued a request for proposals last week for survey and 
clearance work at the former Canadian Forces Base Rivers, roughly 50 
kilometres northwest of Brandon, after a freak explosion disfigured a 
16-year-old boy.

Matthew Dickenson was mowing corn stalks last spring near an abandoned 
runway when he ran over a "pyrotechnic item" that caught fire, says a 
Defence Department report.

"While trying to extinguish the fire, the individual saw a softball size 
item, which subsequently detonated in his face."

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For the entire article, see
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyhOzghCKQ3dSRO8N0IfZGfo94HQ

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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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