[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, COMMUNITIES: "Air Force draws backlash for its handling of the latest RAB meeting" at former Wurtsmith AFB, MI

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force draws backlash for its handling of the latest RAB meeting

by Jenny Haglund
Iosco County News Herald (MI)
May 11, 2021

OSCODA – In the most recent meeting of the Wurtsmith Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), a highly anticipated conceptual site model (CSM) presentation – which ate up half of the three-hour event – was actually not what garnered the most feedback. Instead, it was the interruption of a RAB member’s comments – for which the group’s Air Force (AF) co-chair, Dr. Catharine Varley, has since apologized.

She interjected less than three minutes into the remarks by Cathy Wusterbarth, who is also co-lead of the Need Our Water (NOW) group, during the stakeholder updates portion of the meeting.
 
Wusterbarth began by citing the transparency issues that she says continue to occur, as it relates to the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base (WAFB) in Oscoda.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.iosconews.com/news/article_7772aa6c-b273-11eb-b748-8b81ab6e623a.html

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Lenny Siegel
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