Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Operation Davy Jones Locker.
"The Canadian government believes the United States may have jettisoned chemical weapons roughly 100 miles off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, north of Washington state. The US Army says it has no record that was done, but won't rule it out.
I won't say there's nothing there that belongs to us,'' said William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the US Army Chemical Materials Agency and a leading authority on the Army's chemical weapons dumping.
The United States had an 18-ton stockpile of chemical weapons in Alaska after World War II, National Archives records reveal. The Army doesn't know where it all went.
The two other chemical weapons dump sites in Canadian waters are off the coast of Sable Island and Nova Scotia, near the Grand Banks, one of the world's best fisheries, with one site spread out over at least 30 nautical miles. It is presumed to have been created by the Canadian government after World War II.
Fisheries are dying. The sea bottom is going bare. It's terrible,'' Kehoe said. ''We are finding crab mutations that no one can explain. Cod are dying at their larval stage. Most of that stuff is starting to leach now'' from their steel containers into the sea.
Kehoe's campaign for information and action has spanned 13 years and is becoming increasingly frantic.
A few years ago, the US-based Hunt Oil Co. was granted a license by the Canadian government to conduct seismic testing for potential petroleum products off the coast of Nova Scotia.
There is absolutely no scientific documentation on what effect oil exploration has on these dump sites,'' Kehoe noted. ''There is absolutely no research on it. The National Defense Department went public, on air, saying we don't know the impact of seismic testing on these sites.
This nightmare is going to be happening to you over there. It's horrifying."
I won't say there's nothing there that belongs to us,'' said William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the US Army Chemical Materials Agency and a leading authority on the Army's chemical weapons dumping.
The United States had an 18-ton stockpile of chemical weapons in Alaska after World War II, National Archives records reveal. The Army doesn't know where it all went.
The two other chemical weapons dump sites in Canadian waters are off the coast of Sable Island and Nova Scotia, near the Grand Banks, one of the world's best fisheries, with one site spread out over at least 30 nautical miles. It is presumed to have been created by the Canadian government after World War II.
Fisheries are dying. The sea bottom is going bare. It's terrible,'' Kehoe said. ''We are finding crab mutations that no one can explain. Cod are dying at their larval stage. Most of that stuff is starting to leach now'' from their steel containers into the sea.
Kehoe's campaign for information and action has spanned 13 years and is becoming increasingly frantic.
A few years ago, the US-based Hunt Oil Co. was granted a license by the Canadian government to conduct seismic testing for potential petroleum products off the coast of Nova Scotia.
There is absolutely no scientific documentation on what effect oil exploration has on these dump sites,'' Kehoe noted. ''There is absolutely no research on it. The National Defense Department went public, on air, saying we don't know the impact of seismic testing on these sites.
This nightmare is going to be happening to you over there. It's horrifying."
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