[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Competition for buffer zone funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spending marathon without end: military buffer zones

by Rob Johnson
Pensacola News Journal (FL)
January 25, 2015


Buying up land around military bases has become an economic strategy all on its own in recent years, with millions being spent from Northwest Florida to California in a competition that's heating up.

The main goal: win the Pentagon's favor in case there's another round of installation closures and transferring of lucrative military operations and their payrolls similar to the last big downsizing in 2005.

But vying for the approval of Washington's military brain trust, by creating so-called buffer zones to insulate such posts as Eglin Air Force Base and Pensacola Naval Air Station from commercial and residential encroachment just outside their fences, may not work.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2015/01/25/spending-marathon-without-end-military-buffer-zones/22317215/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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