Why a private developer got $11M to remove bombs while the Okanagan Indian Band is still waiting

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‘THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE FIRST NATIONS ARE LEFT IN THE AVENUES LAID OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT’

VERNON - While a private developer was recently paid an $11-million settlement for land used by the Department of National Defence for weapons training, a First Nation in the same city continues to watch investors walk away while it waits for the department to clean up thousands of acres of prime real estate left littered with explosives.

The Vernon area was used extensively by the Defence Department for military training during and after the Second World War — practices that involved live battle simulations, active firing, and in some cases, very little cleanup. Many thousands of pounds of unexploded explosive ordnances — mortars, grenades, artillery shells and small arms ammunition known collectively as UXO’s — have since been combed from the earth and disposed of, but many more lie buried.

Just ask the Okanagan Indian Band, which pulled 10,000 pounds of UXO from just two acres of land last year. According to band chief Byron Louis, there’s a lot more where that came from, but little help from the Defence Department.

http://infotel.ca/newsitem/why-a-private-developer-got-11m-to-remove-bombs-while-the-okanagan-indian-band-is-still-waiting/it26953

[Lancero]

2. Wonder if we can convince the Bundites to come and seize this land?

It's a win win for everyone really - The Bundites would get to show up the government, the Bundites would clean up/collect the ordinance because something something 2nd ammendment and well... if UXOs decide to go boom, nothing of value would be lost.

I'm imaging their recovery efforts going something like this

[KamaAina]

3. Alas, it's in Canada.

YallQaeda presumably has no interest in seizing them dang-blasted furriners' land.

[Lancero]

4. Maybe we could trick em into thinking the Canadians are hiding a stockpile of snacks there?