[CPEO-MEF] TRIBES: Red Cliff Band update on Lake Superior barrel recovery

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Update on submerged Lake Superior barrels scheduled
The Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa continue their effort 
to raise barrels of military waste dumped in the lake.

By John Myers
Duluth News Tribune (WI)
July 28, 2009

Representatives from the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe are 
coming to Duluth next week to update officials and residents on efforts 
to find and raise barrels of military waste dumped in Lake Superior a 
half-century ago — this time using the latest scientific techniques.

The band has been working for the past five years to identify the 
barrels and, eventually, raise dozens of them to confirm their contents. 
Red Cliff has been using U.S. Department of Defense pollution cleanup 
money for the effort, reviving the hunt more than a decade after state 
and federal agencies said they were finished working on the issue.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/126318/

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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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