The U.S. Navy's Red Hill facility has 'leaked at least 180,000 gallons of petroleum-based fuel into the soils and waters of the island,' says ProgIntl in a new letter signed by NaomiAKlein, jeremycorbyn, nickwestes, and others.
Monday, Deputy Attorney General David Day has voiced agreement with environmentalists' view of the fuel tanks, which he described as a"ticking time bomb."Progressive International's open letter argues that"the U.S. government is committing a crime of historic proportions against the people of Hawaii" by refusing to drain Red Hill's fuel tanks and shutter the facility, which bolsters the U.S. military's operations in the Pacific.
At the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility just meters above the metropolitan area of Honolulu, the U.S. Navy has leaked thousands of gallons of petroleum and toxic chemicals—poisoning residents, displacing whole communities, and threatening all life on the island of O'ahu. The images now emerging from the disaster site are impossible to ignore. Poisoned drinking water has sickened entire communities. Fumes emanate from the ground and taps. Hundreds of families have left or been evacuated from their homes with no assurance where they will now live.
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