[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Debate over Guam open detonation ban

[Lenny Siegel]

Lawmakers, stakeholders, military spar over open detonation ban

By Matsuki Hirayama
KUAM News (GU)
February 17, 2023

Emotions were blowing up inside the Guam Congress Building today during a discussion on a recent law banning open detonation of unexploded ordnance. 

Freshman Sen. Tom Fisher was part of the heated talks. 

"We are in an emergency," he said. "If we do not have the ability to remove this unexploded ordnance, 11 days from now--I mean that is unacceptable," he said. 

The question at hand --  what should be done with the unexploded ordnances still being found in the community? 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kuam.com/story/48400190/lawmakers-stakeholders-military-spar-over-open-detonation-ban

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)