[CPEO-MEF] NATURAL RESOURCES: "US Navy War Games in Gulf of Alaska Threaten One of World's Most Pristine Areas"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dahr Jamail: US Navy War Games in Gulf of Alaska Threaten One of  
World's Most Pristine Areas

By Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, Democracy Now!  Video Interview
via Truthout
June 16, 2105

The U.S. Navy is set to begin a major war exercise in the Gulf of  
Alaska amid protests from local communities concerned about  
environmental damage. The Navy is reportedly unleashing thousands of  
sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines and Coast Guard members along with  
several Navy destroyers, hundreds of aircrafts, untold weaponry and a  
submarine for the naval exercises. The Gulf of Alaska is one of the  
most pristine places left on Earth; the region includes critical  
habitat for all five wild Alaskan salmon species and 377 other  
species of marine life. The Navy’s planned live bombing runs will  
entail the detonation of tens of thousands of pounds of toxic  
munitions, as well as the use of active sonar in fisheries. The Navy  
has conducted war games in the Gulf of Alaska, on and off, for the  
last 30 years, but these new exercises are the largest by far. They  
come at a time when scientists are increasingly worried about climate  
change causing Arctic melting. Meanwhile, the unprecedented melting  
has created an opportunity for the military to expand its operations  
into previously inaccessible terrain. We are joined by Dahr Jamail,  
staff reporter at Truthout, whose latest piece is "Destroying What  
Remains: How the US Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic."

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For the entire transcript and a link to the video, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31408-dahr-jamail-us-navy-war- 
games-in-gulf-of-alaska-threaten-one-of-world-s-most-pristine-areas#

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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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