[CPEO-MEF] Virginia OLF editorial

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NIMBY not a policy for Navy dealings

Editorial
The Virginian-Pilot
August 10, 2007

The pretenses are different, but similarly sacred. In Virginia, 
opponents have the story of slave rebel Nat Turner. In North Carolina, 
they have the migration of endangered waterfowl. Add the inviolate 
causes of property rights and the family farmer, and the siting of a new 
Navy training field threatens to become impossibly complicated.

Which is, perhaps, the whole point.

As the Navy searches for a dark patch of property on which to train 
pilots, opposition to an outlying landing field - as the facility is 
formally known - continues to grow in volume, size and organization in 
both states.

An isolated OLF is crucial if Oceana Naval Air Station is to continue as 
a master jet base - the place where pilots go to learn how to land on an 
aircraft carrier. The Fentress auxiliary field, in Chesapeake, is 
increasingly ill-suited for the kind of constant practice that pilots need.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=130039&ran=38359

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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>
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