[CPEO-MEF] North Carolina's OLF and the future of Oceana NAS (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Plan Needed

Opinion
Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
July 24, 2005

The case against the U.S. Navy's proposed Outlying Landing Field for 
Beaufort and Washington counties continues to get stronger.

The OLF poses a recognized threat to pilots and migratory birds, and it 
promises to cause severe hardship to the already depressed local 
economy. Now, the OLF threatens to become a horribly expensive example 
of Pentagon mismanagement and inefficiency with the taxpayers' money.

The Navy took its case for building the 33,000-acre practice airstrip to 
the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week shortly after news broke 
that an important Virginia naval air station could be closed. If Naval 
Air Station Oceana, which is adjacent to Virginia Beach, is closed in 
the near future, all of the military and efficiency calculations upon 
which the choice of the OLF site near Plymouth are based are suddenly 
questionable.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_ColumnistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784023826&path=!opinion&s=1037645509163

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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
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