The BAN report, "Jobs and Dollars Overboard: The Economic Case against Dumping U.S. Naval Vessels at Sea," details economic advantages of dismantling obsolete vessels for recycling, including jobs, the avoidance of externalized costs of pollution, damage to the environment and climate, as well as the conservation of metals resources.read more
"Artificial reefs have evolved from previously just a mentality of dumping any sort of surplus material, be it boats or even tyres, in the marine environment to create extra habitat,"
Next spring’s sinking of the USS Arthur W. Radford will pollute the ocean with toxic waste, cost Americans jobs and hurt marine life by attracting fish to one area where they will be over-harvested, according to a report by the Basel Action Network, a national nonprofit group that focuses on environmental and trade issues.read more....
According to a department document, American Marine dropped 125 Z-shaped concrete slabs onto Keawakapu Reef on Dec. 2. The damage covered 312 square meters of living reef well outside the area marked for the slabs.
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"...reef construction may have potentially deleterious effects on reef fish populations including (1) increased fishing effort and catch rates (2) boosting the potential for overexploitation of stocks by increasing access to previously unexploited stock segments and, (3) increasing the probability of overexploitation by concentrating previously exploited segments of the stock..."read more
``We are alarmed that the vessel will be allowed to be sunk only 1400m offshore with that amount of lead paint in a bed of sand that feeds our beach with sand.’’No Ship Action group argues that ship with 20,000sqm of lead paint should not be sunk as an artificial reef.
Jeff Lee implies that the opposition is a small group and that this is a not-in-my-backyard issue. Wrong. The largest property owner in the area, the United Church, has run a children's summer camp on the west side of Halkett Bay for generations and is opposed, as are the Georgia Strait Alliance, the Islands Trust and more than 600 residents and users of Howe Sound
