[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIVE PEOPLES: Activists sue over Makua range (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group calls on judge to reject report on Makua

Army surveys lack critical valley data, Malama Makua says

By Gregg K. Kakesako
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 13, 2009

As expected, Malama Makua asked a federal court judge yesterday to set 
aside the Army's environmental impact statement justifying the continued 
use of the Makua Valley on the Waianae Coast for live-ammunition training.

Earthjustice, which has been representing Malama Makua since 2000, said 
the Army failed to prepare contamination studies and archaeological 
surveys of Makua Valley.

"The only studies of subsurface archaeology and marine contamination the 
Army did were so poorly designed that even the Army admitted they didn't 
provide any meaningful information," said Earthjustice attorney David 
Henkin. "This wasn't what we agreed."



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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