Reports from Congress investigating Gulf War illnesses confirm the health risk of low-level exposure to agents currently being burned at the Army incinerators. More recent reports by the National Research Council and the Government Accountability Office prove that the Army has underestimated the toxicity of low-level exposures. The incinerators are unsafe. Shutdowns at both existing facilities continue to plague operations. The number of whistleblowers from both plants has increased, now including a former General Manager, a former Chief Safety Officer and a former Chief of Hazardous Waste Management.
Alternatives are cleaner and safer.
The Alternative Technologies currently being demonstrated are not dependent on combustion and do not result in emissions of dioxins, furans, PCB s, chemical agents and hundreds of additional toxic compounds. Extremely Low Frequency Transmitters, known as Project ELF, is a cold war relic that was part of the communications system designed to launch and wage a submarine-based nuclear war. The Project consists of two transmitters, one each in Clam Lake, Wisconsin, and Republic, Michigan. Project ELF can only send limited signals as each Extremely Low Frequency wave is 2,500 miles long as it traverses the globe. The signal is boosted with each pass over the transmitter.