Camp Pollution Findings to be Made Public

From the Stars and Stripes:

South Korean Ministry of Environment officials have not decided whether to appeal the Seoul Administrative Court’s decision Wednesday that the results of environmental contamination research at the U.S. Army’s former Camp Page must be made public.

The Ministry of Environment’s Sung Soo-ho said Thursday that “at this point, we are examining the matter, including if we will appeal … the court’s decision.”

Court officials were unavailable for comment Thursday.

The Chuncheon Peoples’ Solidarity civic group, backed by the environmentalist organization Green Korea United, filed the lawsuit seeking the results earlier this summer, according to local news reports.

I for one hope they release the findings with the names and techniques used to determine the pollution. Here are some of the complaints from the anti-US hate environmental groups that just continue to be laughable with their claims:

In February, Green Korea and some media outlets said they acquired leaked Ministry of the Environment data that showed unsafe ground and water contamination levels at several sites. They included camps Page, Garry Owen, Greaves, Stanton, Edwards, Giant, Falling Water and Howze, the Kimpo post terminal, the Freedom Bridge and the Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and North Carolina firing ranges.

Can you believe that firing ranges have lead contamination? I tell you I am shocked! What is even more laughable about this is that the firing ranges are not used exclusively by USFK but by the ROK Army as well. Why isn’t the ROK Army being investigated for pollution? I found the inclusion of Freedom Bridge even funnier because USFK soldiers guarded that bridge. How the heck do soldiers pulling guard duty which also includes Koreans by the way, pollute a bridge to the point that these environmentalists say it is unsafe for the public? If this bridge is unsafe than every bridge in Korea needs to be shut down!

That is why I say release the pollution findings with detailed data to check for errors because I wouldn’t be surprised if the findings were “Dr. Hwang-ed” for political reasons especially when these so call environmental groups have been linked to North Korean spies.

If USFK really wanted to prove a point they should have environmenal studies conducted by their own researchers on USFK bases compared to the surrounding communities. Does anyone think for example that Yongsan Garrison is more dangerous to the environment than Seoul?