[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hunters Point Shipyard (CA) Environmental Impact Report

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Showdown Hunters Point Shipyard 2010: A good offense is the best defense!
Pack the FINAL hearing on the EIR Tuesday, Jan. 5, 4 p.m., in City Hall 
Room 416 before the Redevelopment Commission! Stop the bulldozer!

opinion by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D.
San Francisco Bay View
January 5, 2010

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was enacted in 1970 in 
response to the awareness that the environmental impacts of a 
development project in planning must be carefully considered to avoid 
hazardous, costly and unanticipated damage to human health, safety, 
property and the environment.

...

The proposal for the early (dirty) transfer of shipyard Parcels D and E, 
the most hazardous of the six land regions on the former naval base, 
means that, as early as 2010, the Federal Fire Department will no longer 
claim jurisdiction over radiation impacted property containing an active 
landfill and soils contaminated with lead, asbestos, toxic metals, 
pesticides and PCBs.

...

A major component of the project is a new 69,000-seat 49ers stadium 
sited on shipyard Parcel D in a region that is the site of radiation 
contaminated soils, buildings, animal kennels and laboratories – 
remnants of the post World War II premier radiation laboratory in the 
U.S., the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/showdown-hunters-point-shipyard-2010-a-good-offense-is-the-best-defense/

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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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