[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Trans Korea Pipeline

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Trans Korea Pipeline wreaks havoc on the environment
With contamination at 10-20 times the allowable TPH level, clean-up 
costs could exceed 100 billion won

	
The Hankyoreh (South Korea)
August 14, 2008

The soil in 10 out of 23 cities and municipal districts in which Trans 
Korea Pipeline has been installed has suffered severe contamination due 
to leaks from the pipeline, which supplies oil to U.S. military troops 
in South Korea.

The affected areas included Daejeon, Gyeongju and Pyeongtaek. The 
Ministry of Defense, which gained ownership of the pipeline from the 
U.S. Forces Korea in 1992, is currently making an effort to notify 
officials in the affected areas and clean up the contamination. Experts 
estimate that it will cost about 100 billion won (US$96.4 million) to 
dismantle the pipeline and clean up the land in the affected areas.


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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/304281.html

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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
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