From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:35:10 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] SHIPS, REUSE: Ship-breaker at Mare Island (CA)? |
Ship fixer floats Mare Island revival plan By Jessica A. York Vallejo Times-Herald (CA) July 21, 2008Bertrand Perry Jr. was burned once by the ship recycling industry on Mare Island, but that won't keep the welder from trying again if a new shipyard comes to town. Perry, who worked for the Mare Island ship breaking company Pegasus in the late 1990s, was one of many to watch dreams of a renewed industry at the closed naval base go up in smoke. The Oakland-based Pegasus received Vallejo City Council go-ahead in 1995, and held a lease for only two years. Mare Island's graving docks - dug-in enclosed areas with doors that allow water to be pumped out of the holding area while workers repair, build and tear down vessels - are expensive facilities not readily available for the taking on the West Coast. One of the facility's admirers is Gary Whitney, of Allied Defense Recycling, who has been angling to lease the docks since 1998. ... For the entire article, see http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_9947860 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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