Canada Finds Six Sites With Old WMD Agents

The Canadian National Defense Department has discovered six sites containing old stocks of biological and chemical weapons agents, the Edmonton Sun reported yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 10).

The agents are located at four land and two marine locations identified by the department’s Warfare Agent Disposal (WAD) project. The project received $14 million in 2002 to examine historical records to determine the location of munitions, mustard agent and nuclear waste discarded following World War II, the Sun reported.

Documents state the materials at the six sites “pose a potential risk to human health and/or the environment” and could cost millions to clean, the Sun reported. WAD project manager Dan Godbout said that while the exact amount of agents at the sites is unknown, only “minor amounts” are suspected (Maria McClintock/Toronto Sun, Jan. 23).

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