[CPEO-IRF] Editorial on Hunters Point RAB (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA says HP Shipyard not fit for human habitation

Keep the RAB community controlled

Everybody out for the RAB meeting Thursday, 6pm, Alex Pitcher Room 

Editorial by Willie Ratcliff
San Francisco Bay View
August 24, 2005


In a story in Monday's Chronicle, an EPA spokesman admits what we've
long contended, that the Hunters Point Shipyard is not fit for human
habitation. The Shipyard is still one of the nation's most contaminated
Superfund sites, and the threat that it poses to residents' health is
the reason the community MUST retain control of the HP Shipyard RAB
(Restoration Advisory Board), the federally mandated Navy-community
collaborative that monitors Shipyard cleanup. We must continue to elect
our strongest advocates as community co-chairs until all contamination
has been removed. 

Last month the Navy attempted a coup, rigging an election to make its
hand-picked candidate the new community co-chair of the RAB. Neither
that candidate nor most of the board members who voted for her were
eligible to vote or run ? they'd missed too many meetings or had
formally resigned and hadn't re-applied.

Joining the Navy in this power grab, no doubt, are the City and the
notoriously corrupt Lennar Corp., the nation's largest homebuilder and
the City's chosen "Master Developer" for Shipyard redevelopment.
Drooling in anticipation of the profits they'll rake in from the sale of
the 1,600 homes they're eager to build, they want to sweep out of their
way all our strong, knowledgeable community advocates who refuse to sell
out their community.

...

For the entire editorial, go to
http://www.sfbayview.com/082405/hpshipyard082405.shtml

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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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