[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES, NATIVE PEOPLE:

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Scientist scours NM for unexploded bombs

By Zita Fletcher 
Rio Rancho Observer (NM)
October 31, 2016

As James Glover listened to his grandfather’s stories about dismantling German bombs in England during World War II, he never imagined he would follow the same path.

While his grandfather disassembled Luftwaffe bombs while serving in the British army, James Glover, an environmental scientist, uses his civilian expertise to remove bombs and missiles from FUD (formerly used defense) sites used by the U.S. military. The work is performed under the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program (NALEMP).

“This year, we’ve cleared approximately 2,000 acres of land across various tribal entities, and we have removed about 15,000 pounds of munitions,” said Glover, project manager at Britannia Environmental Consulting in Albuquerque.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/878512/scientist-scours-nm-for-unexploded-bombs.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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