[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIONAL GUARD: "Environmental groups blast National Guard’s firing range plan," Camp Edwards, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental groups blast National Guard’s firing range plan

by Christine Legere
Cape Cod Times (MA)
September 15, 2020 

JOINT BASE CAPE COD - Residents and environmental groups are calling on the Massachusetts National Guard to abandon its proposal for an eight-lane machine gun range at Camp Edwards, or to at least slow down the process so the public can get more information and offer further input.

The comment period on the Guard’s environmental assessment of the proposed machine gun range and its draft finding of no significant impact ended Sept. 8.

Michael Kellett, executive director of RESTORE The North Woods, said the environmental assessment appeared to have been written “with a predetermined outcome of approving the project.”

“No other alternative was seriously considered and the significant potential impacts on the natural and human environments were glossed over,” Kellett wrote.

Kellett called the 30-day comment period a “completely inadequate time frame for citizens to review the 111-page document, analyze its contents and compile and submit comments.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20200915/environmental-groups-blast-national-guards-firing-range-plan

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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