[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL - Labrador (Canada) airbase lawsuit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Down on the farm print this article
Toxic dump at Labrador airbase sparks environmental class action

BY JAMIE BAKER
St. John's Telegram (Newfoundland and Labrador)
March 3, 2008

A Happy Valley-Goose Bay farmer has launched an environmental class 
action against the provincial and federal governments, claiming that 
contamination from a toxic dumpsite at 5 Wing Goose Bay ruined his 
livelihood.

Tom Angiers is one of about a dozen farmers who owned land along the 
Trans-Labrador Highway near the south escarpment of 5 Wing Goose Bay, 
which had previously been home to an old United States Air Force (USAF) 
dump commonly known as Stillwater.

An investigation by Transcontinental Media in August 2004 revealed that 
National Defence asked the provincial government to cease any new 
agricultural land leasing in the area based on concern about the threat 
of possible contamination migration from the old dumpsite.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=113453&sc=79

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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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