[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Space Force Says It May Take 7 Years to Clean Up a Fuel Spill Atop a Sacred Hawaii Volcano"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Space Force Says It May Take 7 Years to Clean Up a Fuel Spill Atop a Sacred Hawaii Volcano

By  Thomas Novelly
Military.com 
March 11, 2025 a\

The Space Force says environmental remediation efforts that include returning sacred soil back to a volcano in Hawaii after 700 gallons of fuel spilled at an observatory on the grounds in 2023 could take as long as seven years to complete.

"We're moving as fast as the process allows us, but we're doing so with minimal disruption to that environment," Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of Space Forces Indo-Pacific, told Military.com during an Air and Space Forces Association conference in Colorado last week. "So, that's kind of key, and sometimes we forget that there's a balance there.”

A week after Mastalir's comments, a Space Base Delta 1 spokesperson, who didn't attribute a name to the statement saying the information came from several groups, confirmed with more details that it could take as long as 2032 for the contamination to be fully cleaned up.

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For the entire article see
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/11/space-force-says-it-may-take-7-years-clean-fuel-spill-atop-sacred-hawaii-volcano.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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