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the art
of the top 10
under
reported news stories of 2009 |
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#9. U. S. ships
sand from Kuwait to Idaho
By Laura
Fitzpatrick
In May, an unusual
shipment made its way from Kuwait to
Idaho: 6,700 tons of radioactive sand.
The cargo, contaminated by traces of
depleted uranium from military vehicles
and munitions that caught on fire during
the first Gulf War, was extracted from a
U.S. army base and dumped at a hazardous
waste disposal site 70 miles southeast
of Boise. And this isn't the first
shipment, either: in years past, the
dump operator, American Ecology Corp.,
has ferried hazardous materials from
U.S. military bases overseas to sites in
Idaho, Nevada, and Texas. "As you can
imagine," a company spokesman explained
to the Associated Press, apparently
without irony, "the host countries of
those bases don't want the waste in
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Unborn
children of the region being
asked to pay the highest price,
the integrity of their DNA."
- Ross
B. Mirkarimi, The Arms Control
Research Centre, from his
report: ‘The Environmental and
Human Health Impacts of the Gulf
Region with Special Reference to
Iraq.’ May 1992
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