[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSIONM, GLOBAL: Guam anger, infrastructure

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

On Guam, planned Marine base raises anger, infrastructure concerns

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post
March 22, 2010; A01

HAGATNA, GUAM -- This remote Pacific island is home to U.S. citizens who 
are fervent supporters of the military, as measured by their record of 
fighting and dying in America's recent wars.

But they are angry about a major military buildup here, which the 
government of Guam and many residents say is being grossly underfunded. 
They fear that the construction of a new Marine Corps base will 
overwhelm the island's already inadequate water and sewage systems, as 
well as its port, power grid, hospital, highways and social services.

...

The federal government has given powerful reasons to worry to the 
180,000 residents of Guam, a balmy tropical island whose military 
importance derives from its location as by far the closest U.S. 
territory to China and North Korea.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032101025.html


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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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