[CPEO-MEF] Wahiawa (HI) Stryker hearing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hawaii Stryker plan gets wary welcome
	
By Will Hoover
Honolulu Advertiser
October 3, 2007


WAHIAWA — An Army proposal to permanently base a $1.5 billion Stryker 
brigade combat team in Hawai'i received a somewhat warmer reception last 
night in Wahiawa than it had in several previous meetings.

Last night's hearing was the fourth of nine to take place in Hawai'i, 
Alaska and Colorado regarding a revised environmental impact statement 
on the Stryker brigade team. The Stryker unit would consist of about 
4,000 soldiers, 328 Stryker vehicles and about 600 other vehicles.

Hugh Lowery, a member of the Wahiawa-Whitmore Neighborhood Board's ad 
hoc committee that reviewed the EIS proposal, said the committee and 
community are keeping an open mind.

On the other hand, he said, they would like some reassurances from the 
military.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071003/NEWS08/710030391/1018/NEWS08

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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