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Snag Hits Newport Nerve Gas Plan: Handful Of Ohians Defeat The Army |
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by Clara Jackson via ML
Email: tsmbj (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
14 Oct 2003
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The U.S. Army's plan to destroy tons of nerve gas stored at Newport Army Aumunition Depot, between Danville, IL and Terre Haute, IN, has hit a snag. |
The U.S. Army had tried to truck in partially treated vx nerve agent to a poor community in Jefferson Township, Ohio for further treatment and disposal in the local sewers. The chemicals have so far been treated in Indiana. Small band of about 18 committed protesters thwarted these plans after almost a year of protests.
A small band of committed protesters (including my 69 and 78 year old parents) in Dayton, Ohio have defeated the U.S. Army! The U.S. Army and Parsons Corp. are terminating their contract with Perma-Fix of Dayton to treat neutralized VX nerve agent. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, confirmed Monday that Army officials were withdrawing from a plan that called for the Jefferson Twp. company to receive up to 900,000 gallons of VX waste products for treatment and discharge into the Montgomery County sewer system.
The Army is expected to announce the withdrawal today. Quote from the Dayton Daily News, October 14, 2003- "Members of the Citizens for the Responsible Destruction of Chemical Weapons of the Miami Valley, a grassroots opposition group that formed soon after the Army announced its plans here early this year, greeted the news with elation." "It just goes to show you what a community of different people can do when it comes together," member Mary Johnson said. "That's what it should be about — collaboration."
There are many such sites in the US where poor people are being subjected to the potential disaster these chemicals represent. The facility in Newport, Indiana already houses these chemicals and instead of keeping them there and minimizing more risk, they wanted to truck them over to Ohio, past miles and miles of farm lands and poor rural farming communities, exposing everyone along the path. Please share this news with other groups that may be struggling against these issues. |
See also:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1014vx.html
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