[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, GLOBAL: "US military fuel pipelines at Fukuoka Airport could raise Japan's decontamination costs"

[Lenny Siegel]

US military fuel pipelines at Fukuoka Airport could raise Japan's decontamination costs

by Masanori Hirakawa
The Mainichi (Japan)
March 10, 2021

FUKUOKA -- In addition to revelations that benzene and lead exceeding limits stipulated by the Soil Contamination Countermeasures Act were detected along fuel pipelines that were used when Fukuoka Airport was a U.S. military facility, it has emerged that pipelines had been laid in other areas of the airport. 

The Mainichi Shimbun obtained an image from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism that discloses where the pipelines were installed. The new information points to the possibility that pollution by toxic materials may be more widespread than previously known.

In addition, it has come to light that the removal of contaminated soil has cost 516 million yen (approx. $4.74 million). Japan has paid for all of it, and the city of Fukuoka and the Fukuoka Prefectural Government have also shouldered a portion of that. Depending on how far the contamination has spread, the burden shouldered by the local and central governments may balloon.

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For the entire article, see
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210310/p2a/00m/0na/013000c

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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