[CPEO-IRF] Past New England closures

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old bases now offer new jobs

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Cape Cod Times (MA)
August 22, 2005

LIMESTONE, Maine - The vote to close Loring Air Force Base came in 1991,
the same year the flag was lowered for the last time at New Hampshire's
Pease Air Force Base, a victim of the previous round of military base closings.

Now called Pease International Tradeport, the former base now boasts
5,500 jobs, five times the number of civilian jobs it had when it was an
Air Force base. Loring also has surpassed the number of civilian workers
with 1,450 jobs, but it has not been easy.

Unlike Limestone, in Maine's rural potato country, Pease is on New
Hampshire's Seacoast, 50 miles from Boston, with highways, a deep water
port and plentiful workers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/oldbases22.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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