[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, COMMUNITY: Raytheon TCE spill in St. Petersburg (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Raytheon is blaming the Defense Department for its exclusion of cameras 
from a public meeting on its property. - LS]


Pinellas Homeowners Want Answers From Raytheon

By CARLOS MONCADA and MARK DOUGLAS
The Tampa Tribune and News Channel 8 (FL)
May 29, 2008


ST. PETERSBURG - Since finding out that her irrigation well is 
contaminated, Elizabeth West worries whether she will be able to sell 
her home of nine years.

"It feels like I'm holding the bag, so to speak," said West, who 
received a contamination notice from state environmental regulators 
Wednesday. "Because I don't think anybody's going to buy the house right 
now. We were planning on selling, but we can't do that until something 
is done about that."

...

Raytheon officials initially said they would not allow news 
organizations to bring cameras to the meeting. After News Channel 8 
raised objections with state officials, however, Kevin Ramundo, the 
company's vice president of communications, said today that Raytheon was 
referring to still and video cameras brought in by members of the 
public, not the news media.

"The reason, quite simply, is that as a Department of Defense 
contractor, we are under some very specific guidelines in terms of how 
devices of that type can be brought into the facility," he said. "It's 
not that it's terribly onerous, but if you think about 400, 500, 600, 
700 people or however many we may end up with, that would be completely 
impractical."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/29/pinellas-homeowners-want-answers-raytheon/

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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>
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