2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, REUSE: Pueblo Chemical Depot (CO) solar proposal
 
Depot panels to push for solar energy

Committees say more base development could happen.

By JOHN NORTON
Pueblo Chieftain (CO)
June 17, 2010

Members of the panels overseeing the civilian uses of the Pueblo Chemical Depot, buoyed by President Barack Obama's pledge Tuesday night to develop more alternative energy resources, agreed to ask Pueblo's congressional delegation to pressure the Army to let solar energy companies obtain long-term leases on the base.

The Pueblo Depot Activity Development Authority and Reuse Commission have been stymied for months in an attempt to provide land for solar developers at the largely unused Army base.

A request to add 2,000 acres to the authority's master lease got no farther than Lt. Col. Rob Wittig's desk because the base commander was told by higher-ups that it wasn't going to happen.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_4fded778-79d1-11df-bccc-001cc4c002e0.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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