[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Cartwright, Labrador, Canada

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DFO investigates soil contamination in Cartwright

Jenny McCarthy
Labradorian (Canada)
October 26, 2010



Cartwright, Labrador has a history as a transportation hub for the south 
coast. The community of less than 600 people was once a fur-trading 
center and later hosted the American military as well as a Ministry of 
Transportation radar station. The legacy of its guests has left the 
community with some contamination that DFO (The Department of Fisheries 
and Oceans) is in the process of investigating.

...

The work on the old fuel line began last year after the Coast Guard, who 
operate out of Cartwright, requested that the line, which leads from the 
wharf to the old Ministry of Transportation transmission station, be 
removed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thelabradorian.ca/Coast-News/2010-10-26/article-1886573/DFO-investigates-soil-contamination-in-Cartwright/1

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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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