[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Canadian ranges

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military bomb sweeps missed anti-tank weapons and mortars: documents

The Canadian Press
July 20, 2008

OTTAWA - Bomb sweeps by the Defence Department on former military ranges 
failed to turn up a number of potentially explosive remnants of past 
training exercises, say newly released documents.

At least two former military sites scoured by the department were later 
found to be riddled with anti-tank weapons, mortar shells and a live, 
500-pound air-drop bomb.

Some explosives were buried mere centimetres underground, show documents 
obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act - 
raising questions within the Defence Department about why the weapons 
were missed the first time around.

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For the entire article, see
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOci2i6Pg6no1AQnFyT8Y-WLMihg

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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