[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CHEMWEAPONS: Newport Chemical Depot (IN): "development top priority"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials: Newport development top priority

by Steven Higgs
Bloomington Alternative (IN)
September 9, 2011

West-central Indiana business and government officials made no  
mystery of their plans for the Newport Chemical Depot (NECD) from  
almost the moment they learned it truly would be theirs. In the  
summer of 2008, as the U.S. Army finished eliminating the 1,269 tons  
of VX nerve agent that had been manufactured and stored there for a  
half century, the locals declared their priorities in a Terre Haute  
Tribune-Star article.

"The thing that is the immediate impact is the job loss," Ed Cole,  
director of the Economic Development Council of Vermillion County and  
point person for the Vermillion Chemical Depot Local Reuse Authority  
(LRA), told the newspaper in July that year. "It is just going to be  
a tremendously bad hit for us."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bloomingtonalternative.com/articles/2011/09/09/10770

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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