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Dear Woooo hoooooo!!! Thanks to everyone who turned this
around!! -Rita From:
owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net [mailto:owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of Hugh McDiarmid For Immediate Release December 18, 2006 Contact:
Coast
Guard Suspends Unregulated machine gun training would have introduced toxic
lead, other hazardous materials into world’s greatest freshwater resource The United States Coast Guard today announced the indefinite suspension
of its proposed live fire machine gun training exercises on the “We welcome the Coast Guard’s decision to discard what
seemed a poorly conceived plan that had few environmental safeguards and
inadequate scientific scrutiny,” said “Any activity that introduces cancer-causing neurotoxins like
lead into the aquatic environment needs to be exhaustively scrutinized.
Possible alternatives should be considered, and safeguards created to minimize
potential ecosystem disruptions. This plan had none of that.” Coast Guard Rear Adm. John E. Crowley, Jr. recognized the need for
better environmental safeguards in a statement released today. If the plan is
reconsidered at a later date, he said, it will examine environmental concerns
and pursue “environmentally-friendly alternatives to the lead ammunition
we currently use.” The The Coast Guard training would have discharged roughly 7,000 pounds of
lead annually into the lakes, close to twice as much as is discharged to
surface waters annually from all regulated The ### |