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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

US inaction on Clark, Subic toxic wastes scored

By Tonette Orejas
The Inquirer (Philippines)
February 24, 2008

MABALACAT, Pampanga —Members of the US-based Christian Peacemaker Teams 
(CPT) have expressed outrage over the American government's continued 
use of the Philippines as a site for military exercises even as it 
failed to clean up contaminated areas in its two former bases in the 
country.

CPT delegates saw what they called "continuing military contamination" 
as they visited the former Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base on the 
first week of the Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) in Mindanao, the 
biggest of 30 or so exercises that resumed in 1999 under the 
Philippines-US Visiting Forces Agreement.

Clark in Pampanga and Tarlac, and Subic in Bataan and Zambales have 
since been converted by the Philippine government into economic free 
ports after the Philippine Senate ordered the closure of the military 
facilities in 1991.

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For the entire article, see
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080224-120934/US-inaction-on-Clark-Subic-toxic-wastes-scored
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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