Army Stops Explosives Disposal

[LadyTevar]

Nice to hear that they were using WV for this AFTER THE FACT! Oh, and they were making workers sick just to be around them, too. Wouldn't that have been nice in our water supplies?

[quote] April 04, 2007
Talon explosives shipped out of W.Va.

U.S. Army officials have given up their plan to dispose of old military explosives by using them as blasting boosters at mountaintop removal mines in Southern West Virginia.

After a high-profile accident involving the explosive tetryl, the Army shipped remaining amounts of the material to a military installation in Oklahoma, officials confirmed this week.

About 360,000 pounds of tetryl boosters were trucked to the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant near McAlester, Okla., where they were demilitarized, said Army spokesman Steve Abney.

“We originally thought we could destroy it in West Virginia, but that didn’t work out,â€