| Navy brass review its options with OLF - Sites in the state being kept a secret |
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09-15-07
Washington Daily News
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| Navy Secretary Donald Winter is reviewing the latest information about potential OLF sites in NC & VA following a "document exchange" among Navy leaders... The review lasts 60 days... In the meantime, the Navy is standing by its preferred OLF "Site C"...(more) |
| Navy will submit new report on OLF site picks - Panel will study some alternatives |
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09-14-07
News & Observer
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| The Navy, faced with broad opposition to building a practice airstrip near a wildlife refuge in Eastern North Carolina, is considering a number of alternative sites submitted by North Carolina and Virginia....(more) |
| Easley reactivates OLF study group - Could help Navy assess alternative locations |
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09-14-07
Washington Daily News
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| Beaufort County Manager Paul Spruill and Washington County Manager David Peoples are both members of the study group. They were notified just days ago that the group will come out of its three-year hiatus....(more) |
| Officials silent on location of additional sites for Navy landing field |
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09-14-07
New Bern Sun Journal
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| The state had been expected to announce new sites Friday to be added to the list of five in North Carolina that the Navy has been considering since Jan. 8, 2002. Instead, officials said the Navy would take up to 60 days to consider whether to study more s...(more) |
| The Navy looks to task force to identify alternative sites for an OLF |
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09-13-07
Southern Environmental Law Center
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| Derb Carter: "We are hopeful that the reconvening of this task force is a sign that the Navy is finally taking a serious and objective look at suitable alternative sites. Surely, working with the state of North Carolina, the Navy can find a location...(more) |
| Easley reactivates OLF task force to help with alternate sites |
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09-13-07
Charlotte Observer
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| A Navy spokesman told The News & Observer on Thursday that the Fleet Forces Command plans to submit a report on alternate sites Friday to the secretary of Navy, who will decide in two months whether to reopen the environmental review process for other sit...(more) |
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09-13-07
Charlotte Observer
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| Easley reactivates OLF task force to help with alternate sites...(more) |
| Navy looks at alternate OLF sites |
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09-13-07
News & Observer
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| Gov. Mike Easley announced today that he is reactivating a study panel to examine economic and enviornmental aspects of sites that meet the Navy´s needs. The group will meet on Tuesday....(more) |
| GOV. EASLEY ACTIVATES OLF STUDY GROUP TO EXPLORE ALTERNATIVE SITES |
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09-13-07
North Carolina Office of the Governor
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| RALEIGH Gov. Mike Easley announced today he is reactivating his Outlying Landing Field Study Group to examine the strategic, economic and environmental aspects of finding sites that will meet the U.S. Navy´s training needs, protect the environment...(more) |
| Another class-action lawsuit filed over Navy jet noise |
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09-13-07
Virginian-Pilot
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| Lawyers representing another wave of plaintiffs filed a class-action claim on Wednesday that could potentially represent thousands of property owners around Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach and Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field in Chesapeak...(more) |
| Out with it |
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09-11-07
Washington Daily News
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| Somewhere between Raleigh and the Pentagon, there exists a list that the people of eastern North Carolina are waiting to see. We know it exists, and we know that it will be made public - eventually. That list details NC's alternative landing field sites...(more) |
| Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge |
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09-07-07
Defenders of Wildlife
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| In the ruling, the court states "The point of a wildlife refuge is not just to protect an area that is beautiful and valuable in its own right, but to remind us that an environment that is welcoming to wildlife will ultimately be one that is more hospitab...(more) |
| Additional sites for Navy landing field to be announced soon |
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09-07-07
New Bern Sun Journal
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| Additional North Carolina sites for a proposed Navy landing field are expected to be announced Sept. 15 along with results of the updated environmental study on five sites already considered....(more) |
| Additional sites for Navy landing field to be announced soon |
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09-06-07
New Bern Sun Journal
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| North Carolina officials have kept theirs quiet but they are rumored to include Open Grounds Farm in Carteret County, a site near Hoffman Forest, and one slightly north of the Navy´s first choice in Washington County....(more) |
| No one wants Navy training airfield |
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09-04-07
United Press International
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| The original proposal to put the field in Washington County in North Carolina ran into heavy local opposition....(more) |
| No place to land |
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09-04-07
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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| Virginia Beach created the demand for the field by allowing its suburbs to spread out of control. She said no quiet, rural county in Virginia or North Carolina should have to pay for it....(more) |
