[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, NATIVE PEOPLES: Hopedale, Labrador radar station - "black ooze"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Black ooze at old Cold War station frightens Labrador town

CBC News (Toronto, Canada)
June 15, 2009

Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what 
pollution in their midst may mean. Residents of the Inuit community of 
Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. (CBC)

...

"Drums full of tar [are] coming up, coming from under the ground," said 
Sabrina Pijogge, crouching over a patch of the black ooze and metal that 
has extruded on to the ground by the foundation of her home.

...

The U.S. air force ran a radar station in Hopedale from 1953 to 1968, 
during the height of the Cold War. However, the U.S. did not clean up 
the site when it left.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/06/15/hopedale-military-pollution-615.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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