United States clears out of Iceland

[Newsjock]

http://nunatsiaq.com/news/arctic/briefs.html#us

The United States military base at Keflavik, Iceland was formally returned to Iceland last Saturday after 55 years of occupation.

... The next day, critics of the U.S. presence in Iceland gathered on the site to have a look around the former base - the first members of the general public to do so. They were shown around by a guide who pointed out both the most notable and the most heavily polluted areas of the former base.

... Icelanders now have possession of former base, but will have to pay up to $80 million for clean up of toxic areas and demolition. Cockroaches have apparently infested several buildings at the former base.

[hobbit709]

1. Cockroaches have apparently infested several buildings at the former base.

You mean DeLay and his cronies were there?

[jumpoffdaplanet]

5. No, real hugh roaches

I was stationed there years ago, and it was constant battle against them.

[MadMaddie]

2. How embarrasing......you would think they would leave

the place in a condition that it could be available for immediate use.....

[Red Right and BLUE]

3. Hmm, but where are they headed now? nt

[Hand]

4. Sounds like Goose Bay, Labrador after the USAF left.

The place was an environmental disaster area--soil full of jet fuel, rusting barrels of toxic crap lying around everywhere etc., etc. There was even a place the locals called "the yellow paint pond." Same thing with the DEW line in the Northwest Territories. :puke: