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GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Steve Barnett, left, Admiral John Wade and Capt. Cameron Geertsema speak Wednesday during a press conference at the Federal Fire Department Office regarding the accidental discharge of chemical foam at Red Hill on Tuesday afternoon.
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The spilling of 1,100 gallons of a highly toxic foam is criminal (“Toxic spill cause unknown, Navy says,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 1). This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Navy should be taken to court for this and many other chronic, environmentally disastrous violations. Over the decades, Pearl Harbor’s toxicity has been increasing. The under- water USS Arizona is leaking as much as nine gallons of oil per day. Multiply that times 70 years to get the degree of contamination.
Before World War II, that harbor was used by Native Hawaiians for fish gathering. It was a pristine estuary, a biologically balanced nursery for aquatic plants and animals.
Red Hill and oil leakage into Pearl Harbor are the tip of the horrid U.S. military’s toxic iceberg that stretches across lands and seas of our world.
Gary Harrold
Hilo
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