[Sust-mar] Conference on sea dumped munitions in Halifax

[Peter Watson]

The First International Conference of Chemical and Conventional
Munitions Dumped at Sea

Halifax NS, Oct 9-11 2007

A Nova Scotia munitions expert is calling on Canada to take the lead in
cleaning up the world’s underwater munitions sites, saying that every
year they are left to corrode increases the risk that toxic substances
will be released into the oceans.

"There is a risk of the munitions blowing up. . . . But the far greater
risk is environmental catastrophe by leaving them there," said Terry
Long, a retired Canadian Forces engineer and chairman of the First
International Conference of Chemical and Conventional Munitions Dumped
at Sea.

"What I’m trying to say here in Canada is we have an opportunity to
clean up these sites before they destroy our fish habitat and our fish,
but there’s no government leadership on this issue."


http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/951547.html

http://www.seadumpedmunitions.com/