[CPEO-BIF] Abbott Laboratories site, Laurinburg, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group in opposition to ordinance amendment
Others say city training sites could lead to jobs, development

by Mary Katherine Murphy & Abbi Overfelt
Laurinburg Exchange (NC)
November 17, 2013


LAURINBURG — A Scotland County commissioner says he has mobilized a  
group of Laurinburg residents who live near the proposed site of a  
military training facility to sign a petition that will be sent up  
the chain of command at Ft. Bragg if it goes unheeded at Tuesday’s  
City Council meeting.

John Alford says anyone who cares about the nation’s military would  
never participate in the training proposed by the Gryphon Group if  
they knew about the hazardous chemicals that seeped into the ground  
when the site housed Abbott Laboratories.

It’s information he plans to use in an attempt to keep the council  
from voting to allow military training facilities in Industrial zones  
— and keep such facilities away from his neighborhood — but state  
environmental officials say that the site will not cause harm to  
anyone who inhabits it as long as guidelines set in a “brownfield”  
agreement are followed.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/news/2890920/Group-in- 
opposition-to-ordinance-amendment

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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