[CPEO-MEF] NATURAL RESOURCES, TRAINING: "The US Navy's Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!): The US Navy's Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska


By Dahr Jamail
Truthout
April 10, 2017

It's war in the Gulf and the US Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I'm talking about the Gulf of Alaska and it's actually mock war -- if, that is, you don't happen to be a fin whale or a wild salmon. 

This May, the Navy will again sail its warships into the Gulf of Alaska. There, they will engage in military maneuvers and possibly drop bombs, launch torpedoes and missiles, and engage in activities that stand a significant chance of poisoning those once-pristine waters, while it prepares for future battles elsewhere on the planet. Think of it as a war against wildlife, an assault on the environment and local coastal communities.

And call it irony or call it American life in 2017, but the US military's Alaska Command has branded Emily Stolarcyk "a troublemaker" for insistently pointing this out. In a state where such a phrase is the equivalent of an obscenity, some have bluntly called her "anti-military." The office of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has termed her a "rabble-rouser," while a Kodiak Assembly member labeled some of what she's been saying about the Navy "just silly."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40162-war-in-the-gulf-no-not-that-gulf-the-us-navy-s-anti-environmental-broadside-in-the-gulf-of-alaska

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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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