[CPEO-MEF] Lac St. Pierre, Quebec UXO

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DND to start removing thousands of ammunition shells from lake

Marianne White
CanWest News Service
September 9, 2007

For almost 50 years, the Department of National Defence pounded Lac St. 
Pierre, near Trois-Rivieres, Que., with shells as big as 155 millimetres 
-- the size of a big fire log -- to test its ammunition.

The area has been dubbed a minefield and DND maintains a year round 
"caution zone," including floating signs on the lake, to advise boaters 
and others users of the danger of ordnance lurking underwater.

Local residents have been lobbying DND for years to remove an estimated 
8,000 live shells from the lake's bottom. And they finally have a first 
victory.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=dbe471ca-9114-49a1-900b-813aa5e69fe6&k=87244

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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