[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, REUSE: "Million Air Pushes Back on Critics of Pease [NH] Fuel Farm Plan"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Million Air Pushes Back on Critics of Pease Fuel Farm Plan 

by Damien Fisher
NH Journal
October 16, 2022 
	

As Seacoast residents raise the alarm about the proposed 90,000-gallon jet fuel storage being built at Pease International Tradeport by private air company Million Air, the company is pushing back. 

“Million Air is proposing new tanks with state-of-the-art leak detection, prevention, and containment systems designed to meet or exceed current best practices,” said Peter Bragdon, a spokesman for the Houston-based company. “As long as planes are flying in and out of Pease, fuel will be needed for those planes. Doesn’t it make sense to have the most modern, up-to-date systems available?”

Concerned residents and environmental activists held a press conference last week to protest the fuel tanks, which they said will be located too close to wetlands that feed into the local drinking water supply.

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For the entire article, see
https://nhjournal.com/million-air-pushes-back-on-critics-of-pease-fuel-farm-plan/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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