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To: Ilaine who wrote (170935)	6/23/2006 9:06:59 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793801

I too am puzzled by the attempt to make a big deal out of a few leftover WMD from the Iran/Iraq war. If that's a justification for war, maybe we should have invaded France... Disposal of WWI ordnance continues Bomb displosal experts are handling 85-year-old munitions April 15, 2001 Web posted at: 6:36 PM EDT (2236 GMT) VIMY, France -- Bomb disposal experts are continuing a lengthy operation to make safe a stockpile of toxic World War I munitions from an open-air storage compound. It has forced the mass evacuation of nearby homes and many residents may not be able to return home until next week. Wearing hooded rubber bodysuits and oxygen masks, the experts have been placing the rusted ordnance into refrigerated containers. The containers have then been loaded onto trucks ready for transporting to a safe storage depot near Paris. The compound, known locally as "Bear's Mouth," has for 25 years acted as a dump for the munitions that are still regularly found in fields throughout northern France. Some 173 tonnes of bombs, shells and mines are stacked in the compound, including shells containing mustard gas, phosgene and other chemicals. [more] archives.cnn.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (170935)	6/24/2006 3:24:50 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Love Canal inhabitants probably weren't laughing at long ago chemicals... A Toxic Ghost Town by Michael H. Brown The Atlantic Monthly \| July 1989 ..... theatlantic.com ore than ten years have passed since a leaky dump in Niagara Falls, a city in upstate New York, became infamous as Love Canal. The site became a matter for public concern during the summer and autumn of 1978, when Governor Hugh L. Carey and President Jimmy Carter declared an emergency there and arranged to evacuate helpless families who had watched industrial sludge invade their back yards. Overnight a blue-collar community six miles from the cataracts of Niagara Falls became America's first toxic ghost town. Love Canal, about which I reported in the December, 1979, Atlantic, was the harbinger of America's toxic-waste crisis. The situation led to the identification of many similar problems nationwide and to the creation of a $1.6 billion federal Superfund (now valued at $10.1 billion) for their remediation. At last count, 1,030 families had evacuated the Love Canal area during two separate emergencies, one in 1978, for the 238 households closest to the dump, and a second just a few months after publication of the Atlantic article, for 792 households on the periphery of the original danger zone. Roughly $150 million has been spent to sample the air, groundwater, and soil; survey health problems in the area; pay residents for their homes; move those residents to new homes; and halt and clean up the pollution. The costs were split between the state, which used emergency allocations as well as major shares of its health and environmental budgets, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which relied on Superfund money and funds administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.