2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] EXPANSIONM, GLOBAL: Guam anger, infrastructure
 
On Guam, planned Marine base raises anger, infrastructure concerns

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post
March 22, 2010; A01

HAGATNA, GUAM -- This remote Pacific island is home to U.S. citizens who are fervent supporters of the military, as measured by their record of fighting and dying in America's recent wars.

But they are angry about a major military buildup here, which the government of Guam and many residents say is being grossly underfunded. They fear that the construction of a new Marine Corps base will overwhelm the island's already inadequate water and sewage systems, as well as its port, power grid, hospital, highways and social services.

...

The federal government has given powerful reasons to worry to the 180,000 residents of Guam, a balmy tropical island whose military importance derives from its location as by far the closest U.S. territory to China and North Korea.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032101025.html


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