clean-up project at HMS Malabar will be held at 12.10 p.m. on November 17.

Governor Thorold Masefield, Premier Jennifer Smith, Development, Opportunity and Government Services Minister Terry Lister and Brian Brader -- Deputy Command Secretary (Resources and Finance), Commander-in-Chief FLEET, MOD UK -- will attend.

The clean-up was launched in November, 1997, and it has cost the UK more than $1 million to remove the waste oil which was dumped in caves below the former British military base.

Meanwhile the question of who will clean up pollution left at the former US military bases at Southside in St. David's and the former US Annex in Southampton remains unanswered.

Neither the British nor the Americans are willing to assume responsibility for the clean-up of these areas where the pollution includes potentially deadly asbestos.

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