[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Southside Virginia practice landing field

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Southside residents will fight Navy plan to build jet field
Group meets on how to keep practice field out of area


By BILL GEROUX
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH (VA)
April 3, 2008

COURTLAND -- Nearly 700 residents of rural Southside Virginia turned out 
last night to plan a counterattack against a Navy proposal to build a 
practice field for its noisy jets.

The organizer of the group, Tony Clark, read the biblical story of David 
and Goliath to the crowd and predicted a similar upset victory against 
the Navy.

Barry Steinberg, a Washington lawyer hired by the counties of Sussex, 
Surry and Southampton, vowed to question all aspects of the Navy's plan, 
from the potential effect of jet noise on livestock to the question of 
whether an airfield would be finished before a new generation of Navy 
jets renders it obsolete.

Outside the crowded Southampton High School auditorium, members of the 
group sold T-shirts, stickers, yard signs and ball caps with messages of 
opposition to a landing field. Several county supervisors and state 
legislators, and a representative of Rep. J. Randy Forbes, R-4th, 
attended to show support for the group.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-03-0203.html

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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
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