Saturday, August 25, 2007

$1B cleanup of Alaska bases drags on (The Charlotte Observer)

Like countless generations of Yup'ik Eskimos, George Noongwook's grandfather once pulled salmon and trout from the Suqitughneq River on St. Lawrence Island. But Noongwook has never done so. The whaling captain from the village of Savoonga worries that the remnants of a 180,000-gallon diesel fuel spill from a deserted Cold War surveillance site will make him sick. "There hasn't been anyone fishing ...

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