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AlterNet / By William Boardman
Vt. City Fights Planned F-35 Jet Testing That Would Make 1,000+ Homes "Incompatible with Residential Use"
The Burlington city council is determined to defend itself against the Defense Dept.
November 28, 2012 |
Faced with the community-damaging possibility of the U.S. Air Force basing its soon-to-be-tested F-35 nuclear capable fighter bomber at the Burlington Airport in their city, South Burlingtons City Councilors have once again expressed carefully and coherently argued opposition to the plan that the Air Forces own study found would render more than a thousand nearby homes incompatible with residential use.
The impact of an F-35 base would, by the Air Forces own calculation, destroy houses and displace people on a scale akin to a military campaign. Of all its proposed basing options, the Air Force acknowledges that by far the most damaging civilian impact would be felt by South Burlington and Winooski.
With that level of destruction in mind, together with the reality that it would fall, like class warfare, on the less well off, the city council has stated its determination to defend its community and its residents against industrial, military, and political interests, against what some have called vulture capitalism.
In response to two recent pro-F-35 petitions from regional business groups, the city council met November 23 and voted 4-0 with one member absent to approve similar three-page, single-spaced, analytical responses to the two sets of petitioners, the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation (largely unaffected by the air base) and Business Development of Montpelier (the state capitol, some 35 miles away) . ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/vt-city-fights-planned-f-35-jet-testing-would-make-1000-homes-incompatible-residential-use
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VT City Fights Planned F-35 Jet Tests That Would Make 1,000+ Homes "Incompatible with Residential... (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2012
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Money well-wasted
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)2. Why the fuck wouldn't they test this shit out in
Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, etc. Besides it is a huge waste of money and resources, there's better places to test these types of things then over a New England neighborhood.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. Vermont's people in congress probably pulled a few strings