[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, REUSE: Former Loring AFB, ME

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Adding Insult to Injury
The former Loring AFB in Maine is highly contaminated with PFAS.

Plans to redevelop the base into a fuel facility may be jeopardized.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
December 26, 2023

Limestone, Maine, December 22. 2023 – A widely circulated article in The County newspaper “PFAS found on former Loring base could delay $4B fuel production project” contains numerous inaccuracies and important omissions regarding PFAS contamination caused by the Air Force at the former Loring Air Force base. 

The Air Force is not being truthful to this community about the massive, toxic, and eternal contamination it has left behind. Frightening levels of PFAS contaminate the soil, air, water, and fish. Apparently, developers and the state don’t think it’s a big deal and are eager to re-develop the former air force base. 

Seriously eroded journalistic performance and expectations have brought us to the point where “official” blather is taken as gospel truth. Here, the consequences may be deadly. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/adding-insult-to-injury

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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