[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS, REUSE: Ship-breaker at Mare Island (CA)?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ship fixer floats Mare Island revival plan

By Jessica A. York
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
July 21, 2008

Bertrand Perry Jr. was burned once by the ship recycling industry on 
Mare Island, but that won't keep the welder from trying again if a new 
shipyard comes to town.

Perry, who worked for the Mare Island ship breaking company Pegasus in 
the late 1990s, was one of many to watch dreams of a renewed industry at 
the closed naval base go up in smoke. The Oakland-based Pegasus received 
Vallejo City Council go-ahead in 1995, and held a lease for only two years.

Mare Island's graving docks - dug-in enclosed areas with doors that 
allow water to be pumped out of the holding area while workers repair, 
build and tear down vessels - are expensive facilities not readily 
available for the taking on the West Coast. One of the facility's 
admirers is Gary Whitney, of Allied Defense Recycling, who has been 
angling to lease the docks since 1998.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_9947860

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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
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