[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIVE PEOPLES, GLOBAL: "Okanagan Indian Band says [Canadian] defense department misleading public over unexploded ordinances"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Okanagan Indian Band says defense department misleading public over unexploded ordinances

By Lake Country Calendar (BC)
January 18, 2016 

Recent media coverage of the Okanagan Indian Band’s efforts to clear their lands of unexploded ordinances has raised the profile of an issue that dates back to before the World Wars, but also resulted in what the band is calling misleading statements from the Department of National Defense (DND)

Recently McLeans magazine published a feature article on the issue of unexploded ordinances left by DND on OKIB (and many other First Nations reserves) when those areas were used for military training exercises before World War I and II.

But the band says a DND statement following the article is misleading.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lakecountrycalendar.com/news/365659341.html

See also http://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/156436/OKIB-blasts-DND

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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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