2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:21:40 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] OCEANS: "Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans"
 
Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans

By Dahr Jamail
Truth out 
March 15, 2017

For the next two decades, the US Navy will inject hundreds of thousands of pounds of flares and billions of metal-coated glass fibers into ocean waters off the coasts of Washington and Oregon.

When the last two decades are added in, the Navy will have left behind more than half a million pounds of flares and trillions of microfibers of chaff (a radar countermeasure dropped by aircraft) by the year 2037.

Additionally, as Truthout previously reported, upcoming naval exercises will inject 20,000 tons of heavy metals and explosives into the seas.

These shocking numbers are due to a widespread domestic military expansion, which entails a dramatic uptick in the number of naval training exercises conducted each year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39846-naval-exercises-add-trillions-of-pieces-of-plastic-debris-to-oceans
 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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