[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Former Consecon Air Weapons Range, Lake Ontario (ONT)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fuses short over Wellers Bay

by Ray Yurkowski
Brighton Independent (ONT)
August 14, 2008

For years, it's been a quiet, sandy refuge for local nature lovers 
willing to disregard the danger beneath their feet.

"It's all about a right to our heritage," says Friends of Wellers Bay 
chair, Wayne Wilson at their annual meeting held last weekend at Consecon.

The narrow strip of sand protruding from the waters of Lake Ontario was 
home to the former Consecon Air Weapons Range and consists of several 
islands and connecting sand spits between Consecon and Brighton. The 
military operated the air weapons range from 1939 to 1953 training 
thousands of pilots as bombs, rockets and explosive projectiles were 
directed at targets in the area. The Department of National Defence 
(DND) is advising the public to stay out saying the area still contains 
enough unexploded Second World War artillery to devastate an entire city 
block.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.indynews.ca/article.php?id=2293

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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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