Re: Fw: Draft MMR Impact Area Fact Sheet

[Richard Hugus <rhugus@cape.com>]

>Friends:
>
>How do you view this as opposed to the "no problem" findings from the
>testing at Camp Grayling?  How can there be so great a disparity between EPA
>Regional attitudes enabling EPA Chicago to concur with the favorable
>findings at Grayling?  I still contend that the testing company at Grayling
>colluded with their client, the military, to minimize the whole shebang.
>Never will I change my mind unless PROVEN wrong.
>
>Dan Alstott


Dan,

Citizens attempting to get environmental problems addressed at military
bases across the country must know, of course, that contractors hired by
the military are in collusion with the military and will therefore
minimize findings.

Given the present system - in which the fox is permitted to hire another
fox to conduct the investigation of whether he raided the henhouse - it's
up to the citizens and regulators to figure out the truth. This is about
the worst possible system. The success we've had at the Massachusetts
Military Reservation has depended upon the energy of citizens who, in
turn, must get the regulators to do their job.

Richard Hugus