[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Basra (Iraq) oil spill cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental Clean-up Big Step in Base Turnover
17th Fires Brigade

by Spc. Maurice Galloway
DVIDS
December 11, 2009

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq - The 17th Fires Brigade has 
begun the environmental evaluation and clean up of bases occupied by 
U.S. troops in southern Basra in preparation for transfer of control to 
the Iraqi Army slated for January.

Soldiers from the 17th Fires Brigade and the 203rd Military Police 
Company combined their efforts to clean up an oil spill at the Basra 
Operations Center that was left by previous tenants from years of 
careless refueling techniques as well as an ineffective containment system.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=42608

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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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