Since 2016, the Ministry of Defence’s Property Agency has followed how pollution from fire foam at three air stations has spread to a river, a stream, a lake, groundwater and nature.
Avisen Danmark and Radio4 have described this.
Nevertheless, according to the two media, the agency has done nothing over the years to stop the spread of the pollutants.
The Agency estimates that it can take at least 50 years to clean up after the pollution that has spread over the years.
SF’s defense spokeswoman believes that Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen (S) must go to the pockets and find the money for a clean-up.
– In order not to burden the regions with even more expenses for cleaning up poisonous grounds, which many of the regions already have plenty of, the Ministry of Defense should in our eyes actually find the money to clean up the areas themselves.
– If the Minister of Defense thinks that there is a lack of money, she can appropriately set some of it specifically for the purpose in the upcoming defense agreement, it sounds from Anne Valentina Berthelsen.
But it is not just a physical clean-up that is wanted.
The Unity List’s defense spokesperson, Eva Flyvholm, believes that a “political clean-up” is also needed.
– There is an obvious need for a clean-up of PFOS, but also a political clean-up in what the Armed Forces has known about the pollution and why people were not warned, she says in a comment.
Eva Flyvholm immediately thinks that a time horizon of 50 years for the clean-up “sounds like a very long time”.
– But it is absolutely crucial to ensure that the pollution is not spread to more animals and people, she says.
Ritzau is working to get a comment from Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen (S).
Source: The Nordic Page