[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Canada's DEW Line sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEW Line: Canada is cleaning up pollution caused by Cold War radar  
stations in the Arctic

Sandro Contenta
Toronto Star (ONT)
August 3, 2012


DYE-MAIN DEW LINE STATION, NUNAVUT - In a low-flying Twin Otter, the  
glaciers of Cumberland Peninsula seem close enough to touch, snaking  
down from peaks as far as the eye can see.

The view is a stark, stunning expanse of white ice and grey  
mountains, with polished layers of more recently exposed rock as  
glaciers retreat ever further.

"That's global warming," says Dave Eagles, an environmental engineer  
leading a team of federal scientists and officials flying to Cape  
Dyer, at the peninsula's eastern tip.

Later, as the plane crosses the milky waters of Sunneshine Fjord,  
human influence on a pristine environment becomes as obvious as a  
boot cleat in the face.

From the sky, it looks like a giant post-modern flag on the tundra -  
5,000 neatly aligned black vinyl bags and white crates, filled,  
Eagles explains, with soil contaminated by PCBs and lead.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1236806--dew-line-canada- 
is-cleaning-up-pollution-caused-by-cold-war-radar-stations-in-the-arctic

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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
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