[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Navy Outlying Landing Field (VA or NC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents set to fight Navy's OLF with all they've got

Kate Wiltrout
The Virginian-Pilot
February 17, 2009

Quietly but surely, rural communities on the edges of Hampton Roads are 
gearing up for what could be a fateful fight.

In Surry County, one woman is compiling lists of historic and 
prehistoric sites; another is analyzing demographic data.

Residents of Gates County, N.C., are sketching their family trees, 
gathering old photographs and accumulating property deeds and land records.

And Tony Clark and Roland Evans are putting the finishing touches on an 
18-minute documentary about life in Virginia's Southampton, Sussex and 
Surry counties.

The efforts have a common goal: build a case against the Navy's plan to 
construct a jet landing strip in the midst of a rural community.

The outlying landing field, or OLF, primarily would serve fighter pilots 
based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach.

....

For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/02/residents-set-fight-navys-olf-all-theyve-got

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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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