[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Former Canadian radar base, Sydney, Nova Scotia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents forced to move due to soil contamination

CBC News
May 27, 2009

Residents in 11 low-income rental homes on a former radar base in 
Sydney, N.S., are being forced to find another place to live due to soil 
contamination caused by buried oil tanks.

New Dawn Enterprises, a non-profit agency that owns the homes, told 
residents this week they have to leave in three months.

The tenants have been offered $1,500 to help with moving costs, a 
reimbursement of their final rent payment and assistance in finding 
another place to live.

The agency's decision to shut down the homes came after it received news 
from the Department of National Defence that it will begin to clean up 
the contamination.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/05/27/ns-residents-contamination.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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