
Chemical weapons, believed from WWII, found off West Coast CBC \|\| November 16, 2005 [KDR: So you think that this stopped after WWII? Army Dumped WMD Offshore in US until 1972] The Department of National Defence is releasing a few more details about the discovery of a stash of old chemical weapons found off the West Coast earlier this year. A Canadian Forces team found the chemicals last June. It's believed the weapons were dumped at the end of the Second World War. Until recently Canada and the United States kept quiet about their wartime sinking of explosives, mustard gas and other chemicals off the East and West Coasts. The military says the chemical weapons are in deep water about 160 kilometres off the coast of Vancouver Island. Officials say they were discovered after a review of military archives. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com It was only last year that Canada and U.S. admitted they discarded chemical weapons, mostly mustard gas, off the coast at the end of the war. "Whether or not they came from an American source originally or whether they are strictly Canadian, we can't say emphatically whether that is the case," said Chris Hough who heads the chemical and biological weapons disposal project at the Department of National Defence. Hough says the site is unlikely to pose a threat to human health, but other experts say very little is known about the environmental impact of such sites. Craig Williams, the director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a watchdog agency based in Kentucky, says there are too many unknowns. "In the ocean-dumping world you're talking about a mixture of these materials at unknown levels, with unknown processes of degradation ... and there have been very few if any studies done that can identify risks associated with that," he said. The military says it needs to gather more information about the site before any cleanup can be considered. Officials won't give the exact location of the dump site, and they say they don't know how much of the material is on the ocean floor. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Chemical weapons, believed from WWII, found off West Coast

CBC || November 16, 2005

[KDR: So you think that this stopped after WWII? Army Dumped WMD Offshore in US until 1972]

The Department of National Defence is releasing a few more details about the discovery of a stash of old chemical weapons found off the West Coast earlier this year.

A Canadian Forces team found the chemicals last June. It's believed the weapons were dumped at the end of the Second World War. Until recently Canada and the United States kept quiet about their wartime sinking of explosives, mustard gas and other chemicals off the East and West Coasts.

The military says the chemical weapons are in deep water about 160 kilometres off the coast of Vancouver Island. Officials say they were discovered after a review of military archives.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

It was only last year that Canada and U.S. admitted they discarded chemical weapons, mostly mustard gas, off the coast at the end of the war.

"Whether or not they came from an American source originally or whether they are strictly Canadian, we can't say emphatically whether that is the case," said Chris Hough who heads the chemical and biological weapons disposal project at the Department of National Defence.

Hough says the site is unlikely to pose a threat to human health, but other experts say very little is known about the environmental impact of such sites.

Craig Williams, the director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a watchdog agency based in Kentucky, says there are too many unknowns.

"In the ocean-dumping world you're talking about a mixture of these materials at unknown levels, with unknown processes of degradation ... and there have been very few if any studies done that can identify risks associated with that," he said.

The military says it needs to gather more information about the site before any cleanup can be considered.

Officials won't give the exact location of the dump site, and they say they don't know how much of the material is on the ocean floor.

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