[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Pentagon To Close Red Hill Fuel Facility [HI] Permanently Amid Contamination Crisis"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon To Close Red Hill Fuel Facility Permanently Amid Contamination Crisis
The announcement marks the end of the military’s fight to keep open a WWII-era fuel facility that has threatened Oahu’s drinking water for years.

By Christina Jedra 
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
March 7, 2022
   
After leaks at the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility culminated in a water contamination crisis impacting thousands of military families, the U.S. Department of Defense said Monday that it will permanently shut down the World War II-era facility.

The decision marks a reversal from the Pentagon’s previous efforts to keep the underground facility in operation. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is committed to defueling, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a briefing.

“He believes this is the right decision, not just for our national security for a more distributed and dispersed fueling capability through the Indo Pacific but also for the environment and for our gracious host and neighbors in Hawaii, and of course for military families,” Kirby said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/03/pentagon-to-close-red-hill-fuel-facility-permanently-amid-contamination-crisis/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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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