The toxic waste watchdog organization Basel Action Network (BAN) speaks out against the government’s plans to scuttle a former aircraft carrier in deep water as an “artificial reef” instead of having the ship safely recycled at one of the half-dozen active ship dismantling yards in the U.S.
such ocean dumping ravages the marine ecosystem, hammers U.S. taxpayers with unnecessary expense, costs U.S. jobs, and violates international law against ocean dumping.
Read the entire press release here:
http://www.ban.org/ban_news/2009/090727_sinking_of_old_aircraft_carrier_denounced.html
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