[CPEO-MEF] Kodiak Launch Complex (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

KODIAK ISLAND BECOMES KEY STAR WARS TEST SITE

By Bruce K. Gagnon
Op-Ed News
January 16, 2008

Kodiak Island in Alaska is famous for huge Kodiak bears, world-class 
salmon fishing, and the magnificent green that the island turns during 
the summer--which is why Kodiak is affectionately called Alaska's 
Emerald Isle.

But in recent years Kodiak Island has become known for something else. 
Star Wars. Hard to believe?

In 1992 the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation's (AADC) was 
created and built the Kodiak Launch Complex. The people of the island 
organized to fight this development saying that putting a rocket launch 
facility on this pristine island would severely impact the fishing and 
tourist industry.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bruce_k__080116_kodiak_island_become.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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