Bogs Taken off Contract

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

BOGS TAKEN OFF CONTRACT

As I previously reported, Congress passed special legislation enabling
the Air Force to compensate cranberry growers on Cape Cod for crops lost
this past year due to ethylene dibromide contamination from Otis Air
National Guard base. The $800,000 authorized this year probably won't do
the job, since Ocean Spray Inc., the processor and marketer, took the 75
contaminated acres of bog off contract. According to the Cape Cod Times,
this will not only cost the grower, but the cities of Falmouth and
Mashpee, which appear to receive a total of more than $100,000 a year
from the cranberry harvest. 

At this time it is unknown whether the Air Force will further compensate
any of the affected parties.

For more information, see the Cape Cod Times webpage, 
http://www.capecodonline.com.

Lenny Siegel
Director, SFSU CAREER/PRO (and Pacific Studies Center)
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@igc.org