Sinking of Canadian battleship sparks environmental fears

The Environment Department has approved a navy plan to haul the retired destroyer HMCS Huron out onto the Pacific Ocean, where U.S. and Canadian ships and jets will use it as target practice until it sinks two kilometres to the ocean floor.

It's a plan environmentalists and one NDP MP say is fraught with problems.

"It's treating the ocean like a garbage dump," said Jennifer Lash, the head of the B.C. activist group Living Oceans says.

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