[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Opposition to Northwest Training Range Complex

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The "Change" we don't need: increased Northwest training Region Complex


Joan Russow, Ph.D.Global Compliance Research Project
Peace, Earth, and Justice News
May 19, 2009

The US is planning on extending the United States Northwest Training 
Range Complex (NWTRC) and increasing their naval training and naval 
warfare off the west Coast close to the Canadian border. This Complex 
will be in violation of a series of international principles from the 
precautionary principle to the transboundary principle yet little 
concern appears to be expressed by the Canadian Department of Defence 
about the probably serious environmental and social impacts of this 
increased militarism.

The United States Northwest Training Range Complex (NWTRC) has engaged 
in military exercises, in several designated areas, along the west coast 
from California to the Canadian border since the Second World War. In 
their training, submarines, surface ships and aviators practice naval 
warfare off the West Coast. The Navy plans to increase the use of air 
and sea targets and a submarine tracking range, and to develop both a 
training minefield for submarines and an electronic signal emitter on 
the coast

These "training" activities, along with the Exercise Trident fury in the 
Greater Victoria Area and in Comox continue to be flagrant displays of 
militarism. Under the international Covenant of Civil and Political 
Rights, to which the United States and Canada are signatories, 
"propaganda for war is prohibited" These training activities and 
"exercise" should definitely be prohibited as propaganda for war.

Many citizens and environmental groups have warned the NWTRC of the 
probability of serious irreversible environmental consequences.

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For the entire posting, see
http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7701&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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