OLF plans move closer to home
The Prince George Journal reported on Thursday that plans to build the Outlying Landing Field across a large swath of western Prince George County near the Tri-Cities have overlooked the existence of several local churches within that tract. (This is a local paper with no online presence.) The Navy's "scoping period" to report any issues with this project ends today. Tomorrow a televised interview with representatives from three VA counties and a Navy spokesman will air at 11:30 AM on WVEC channel 13, without questions from the public. The amount of consideration the Navy has for the homes and lives they plan to displace to accomplish their airborn mission in Iraq can't be more clear than this manner of "scoping" out the risks with a brief window for citizens of their own volition to bring issues to the attention of military authority, and the maps of our rural counties they looked over in the first place marking non-municipal areas full of prive properties for their own purposes, confirmed by helicopter flyovers which sometimes see homes and churches and sometimes miss them. For further developments go to www.novaolf.com.
"The Navy would buy all houses or homes in the area. Graveyards and churches would have to be relocated.”*
*http://www.vancnews.com/articles/2008/01/25/emporia/news/news9822.txt