Posted by Robert Moore on May 18, 19100 at 02:53:13:
Toxic Waste to be stored at Wake Island
ADVISORY
May 10, 2000: Honolulu, USA -- The United States Emby in Tokyo, Japan announces shipment of TOXIC WASTE to Wake Island for "temporary storage".
Text of announcement:
The Following News Release was issued by the Defense Logistics Agency in Fort Belvoir, VA on May 5, 2000:
PCB Shipment to Wake Island for Temporary Storage
The Defense Logistics Agency announced today that a shipment of waste material containing very low levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) will be moved no later than May 18, 2000, from Japan to Wake Island until final disposition is determined. Wake Island is a possession outside the customs territory of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean approximately 2,000 miles from Hawaii. The island is three square miles in size and is staffed by approximately 100 contractor personnel supporting Army activities. Wake Island is currently being used by the U.S. Army as a missile launch support facility.
The waste PCBs to be shipped from Japan resulted from ongoing efforts by the U.S. military forces to make its installations PCB-free, worldwide. These materials were manufactured outside the United States and used by U.S. military forces in Japan. By law, PCBs cannot be imported into the customs territory of the United States for disposal. Currently, there are no appropriate disposal facilities in Japan.
The material consists of items such as transformers, transformer oil, circuit breakers and small parts. It was tested at U.S. military laboratories and found to contain less than 50 parts per million PCBs. The Toxic Substance Control Act does not regulate for storage materials with concentrations less than 50 parts per million PCBs. The items are properly packaged and containerized to ensure safe handling, movement and storage.
The Department of Defense coordinated closely with the Departments of State, Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency. DOD is committed to ensuring this material is handled and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. The Military Sealift Command will transport this material.
For further information, please call the U.S. Emby Press Office on Monday, May 8.
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Link to doent at US site: http://usemby.state.gov/posts/ja1/wwwhp029.html
EnenKio Response:
The Kingdom of EnenKio continues to promote the rule of law. Within the vast resources of the United States, solutions to disposal of these toxic chemicals must abound, yet DOD wants you to believe that not only are they committed to environmental security, when the fact is that no essment of the potential effects on the environment has been done in this case, but that Wake Island is the only viable option for storage.
For more than 150 years, the US government has conducted operations in the Pacific region in secret and without opposition. This operation is no different. The US has even (recently) declared Wake Island (its real name is Eneen-Kio Atoll) OUTSIDE the customs territory of the United States. This convenient declaration cirvents federal law banning importation of PCBs, and in one swift thrust thus, removes oversight by Congress, the media and the American People and grants carte blanche to the war lords of the United States Army and DOD.
With the law out of the way, what constraints shall be used to ensure accountability? How long will these materials sit at Wake before they are completely forgotten? Does anybody remember the other incidents of re-locating waste to Wake? EnenKio deplores this brand of lawlessness, condones oversight by US Congress, federal and international agencies and challenges opposed nations to have the courage to speak out against these acts as fundamental violations of maritime and international law.
Eneen-Kio Atoll is currently a topic of dispute between our countries. The king's claim of ownership to the atoll was fully acknowledged by our sister Republic of the Marshall Islands in 1989, is perfected by the Kingdom of EnenKio on paper and in US courts — the US has never formally denied the claim — and yet, the United States exercises its legendary commitments to upholding human rights and protecting the environment by shipping toxic waste to King Remios' islands!
Well, no doubt this toxic shipment will join the rest of the toxic wastes, chemical and biological pollutants, nuclear and weapons materials dumped and stored there with hardly a whimper from the ignoble flocks of birds and turtles. If the stuff is so benign, why has it been for months shipped back and forth across the Pacific and shuffled from port to port where ample facilities existed for handling? And who is getting rich in the process?
The United States must be prevented from carrying out its insidious plans to hide its mistakes at Wake, else will be born the idiom, "Just Wake it!"
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