[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Camp Hialeah, Busan, South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup at U.S. base in focus

Yonhap
JoongAng Daily (S. Korea)
October 13, 2010

A local court ordered the government yesterday to release pollution data 
on a U.S. military base that is subject to negotiations for cleanup 
costs before its return to South Korea.

The Busan Federation for Environmental Movement had filed a lawsuit 
against the Ministry of Environment, demanding it release results of 
environmental studies for public monitoring on Camp Hialeah, located in 
the southern port city of Busan. The governments of South Korea and the 
U.S. had conducted two on-site inspections to measure the level of 
pollution around the military facility, but refused to disclose the outcomes

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For the entire article, see
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927099

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Lenny Siegel
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