[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Fort Nelson, British Columbia

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup underway at former U.S. air base in B.C.
Former resident remains concerned about contamination

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News
October 26, 2011

The federal government is paying for a multimillion dollar cleanup of  
a former U.S. air force base in northern B.C.

The contaminated land is now the site of Fort Nelson's airport, but  
during the Second World War the landing strip was an air base used by  
thousands of planes en route to Russia as part of the Northwest Air  
Staging Route.

When the U.S. forces pulled out at the end of the war they left  
behind a legacy of contamination, including petroleum hydrocarbons,  
pesticides and heavy metals from old fuel storage tanks, gas stations  
and firefighting training.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/26/bc- 
fort-nelson-clean.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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