[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, BIOTA - Farallon de Mendinilla (CNMI) range

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Crisostimo clarifies FDM letter

By By Junhan B. Todeno
Marianas Variety (Northern Marianas)
March 6, 2008


SENATOR Luis P. Crisostimo yesterday said his letter to the Agency for 
Toxic and Substances and Disease Registry never asked the U.S. military 
to stop its bombing practice operation on Farallon de Mendinilla.

"We just want to make sure that what fell down and contaminated the 
environment would be contained," Crisostimo, D-Saipan, said.

He said if the live-fire bombings on FDM continue, the northern island 
will eventually lose at least 50 percent of the fish supply in the area 
because of water contamination.

Crisostimo also dismissed Senate President Pete P. Reyes' fear that his 
letter might impact the economy of the CNMI.


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http://www.mvariety.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=7817&format=html

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