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SNP demand transparency on radium contamination
- 12-11-2011
The SNP has called for ‘total transparency’ from the Ministry of Defence after it emerged that radium pollution had been identified at three further locations in Scotland, in addition to Dalgety Bay in Fife.
The information was revealed by an FOI request obtained by the Scottish Sunday Express after UK Ministers claimed the information was not available in response to a parliamentary question tabled by SNP Environment spokesperson Mike Weir MP.
In a letter the Defence Infrastructure Organisation revealed that soil contaminated with radium had been identified at thirteen sites across the UK – including: RAF Kinloss, RAF Machrihanish and the former defence aviation repair agency factory near Perth as well as Dalgety Bay in Scotland.
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