[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Republican opposes Pinon Canyon (CO) expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Schaffer backs funding ban on expansion

Republican candidate for Senate says the Army hasn't justified proposed 
growth of Pinon Canyon.

By PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN (CO)
May 6, 2008

Doesn't anybody like the Army?

Bob Schaffer, the Republican candidate for the Senate, ended months of 
mystery Monday when he said the Army has failed to make its case for 
expanding the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and he supports a congressional 
funding ban on the 414,000-acre expansion until the Army proves otherwise.

"I am adamantly opposed to the use of eminent domain by the government 
in this case," Schaffer said in a phone interview. "As far as I am 
concerned, the Army has not made its case for expanding Pinon Canyon. 
The Army is supposed to justify their reasons for the expansion (in a 
report to the Senate) and I am waiting for that report as well."

Schaffer's views put him close to those of Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who 
is the Democratic candidate for the Senate. Udall has asked for a 
Government Accountability Office study of the Army's request to expand 
Pinon Canyon and has also said the Pentagon has failed to make a case 
thus far for acquiring more land at the 238,000-acre training site 
northeast of Trinidad.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/05/06/news/local/doc481ff04e29b96869659869.txt

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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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