[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: UXO training for Okanagan First Nation members (BC, Canada)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Band trains UXO techs

Vernon Morning Star (BC)
July 19, 2015 

Okanagan Indian Band members will be tackling an explosive situation.

The first three of nine band members have been selected to attend training in Texas to assist in disposing of unexploded explosive ordnance from OKIB lands.

“While Canadians prepare to celebrate the end of the Second World War, relics of that era still litter our lands,” said Chief Byron Louis.

“During a clean-up last year, technicians found live mortars which were over 70 years old.”

Beginning with the Boer War in 1906, the Department of National Defense used OKIB range land at Madeline Lake and Goose Lake to train soldiers in firing live mortars, grenades and other munitions, including white phosphorous.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/community/316289701.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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