[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Viequenses (PR) protest burning, detonation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vieques residents give EQB 'ultimatum' on cleanup


by Juan A. Hernandez
Puerto Rico Daily Sun
March 11, 2010

A group of Vieques residents delivered an ultimatum Wednesday to 
Environmental Quality Board President Pedro J. Nieves, demanding that 
the agency take charge and stop the controlled burning of vegetation and 
the surface detonation of bombs and munitions left on the island after 
decades of military maneuvers by the Navy.

"Since they [the EQB] have not paid any attention to our claims ... and 
since there is abundant information demonstrating that contamination 
continues on Vieques, it is our duty to put pressure on the government," 
Vieques activist Ismael Guadalupe said at EQB headquarters. "I think the 
possibility of us being heard is vanishing, so we will have to do 
whatever is necessary for us to protect our children."

The island is a Superfund site and the cleanup is being
done by the military, with the oversight of the Environmental Protection 
Agency and EQB.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Vieques-residents-give-EQB-ultimatum-on-cleanup 


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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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