[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Guam buildup impact

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Draft Environmental Impact Statement not the final say, Bordallo says

By Laura Matthews
Pacific Daily News (GU)
February 1, 2010

Southern residents submitted recommendations to Delegate Madeleine 
Bordallo yesterday on how they said the military could lessen the 
adverse impact of the buildup on Guam.

From impact on culture to health care, environment and water, residents 
who attended the town hall meeting at the Agat Community Center covered 
areas of the draft Environmental Impact Statement some of them believe 
should be improved for a successful buildup.

...

About 8,000 Marines and their 9,000 dependents will be transferred from 
Okinawa in Japan to Guam. In order to prepare for their arrival, 
construction and other buildup jobs will attract a civilian population 
of nearly 80,000 in 2014, which is half of the island's current population.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100201/NEWS01/2010322/1002/Draft-Environmental-Impact-Statement-not-the-final-say-Bordallo-says

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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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