[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy request for five-year permit to operate underground Red Hill [HI] fuel tanks raises red flags"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy request for five-year permit to operate underground Red Hill fuel tanks raises red flags

BY SOPHIE COCKE
HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER (HI)
JULY 15, 2021

HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — State environmental regulators said this week that the Navy has not proved it can safely operate its underground Red Hill fuel tanks, which in recent years have been the subject of mounting concerns over leaks and groundwater contamination.

The conclusion, submitted by the Hawaii Department of Health's Environmental Health Administration as part of a contested case hearing, raises the possibility that the state might deny the Navy a five-year permit to continue operating the facility.

"Given the documented history of releases at the site, the uncertainty associated with the Navy's groundwater model, and the lack of treatment or recovery systems in place to date, the Navy has not met its burden of demonstrating that this facility is protective of human health and the environment from potentially 'significant' future releases, " James Paige, a deputy attorney general for the Environmental Health Administration, wrote in the agency's proposed ruling in the case.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2021-07-15/navy-request-permit-red-hill-red-flag-2162227.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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