ARE YOU KIDDING ME, WHAT NEXT????? HEADS UP RAVENNA!!!!! Portage County: A Missile Site? “Environmental Impact Assessment” ONLY ONE PUBLIC MEETING TO HEAR CONCERNS Ravenna High School, August 5, (Tuesday), from 6 to 9 P.M. Is Camp Ravenna (Ravenna Arsenal) suitable for a missile interceptor site? Who wants a new missile site, and Why? “Congress, concerned about Iran’s efforts to develop ICBMS, has urged the Pentagon to commit to building an additional missile defense site on the East Coast, two of which must be on the East Coast….In a letter to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the current head of MDA, Vice Admiral James Syring, and head of the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command, stated that there is ‘no validated military requirement to deploy an East Coast missile defense site.’” [1] Do Missile Defense Locations put residents at risk? “Missile defense continues to be plagued by a number of decades-old, intractable issues that remain unsolved.” These include terrorism and asymmetric warfare that missile defense systems can’t guard against, problems with decoys and countermeasures that confuse the missile systems, and tests that “fail to demonstrate an effective operational capacity.” Also, increased missile systems motivate adversaries to” build more offensive missiles to overwhelm missile defenses.. . . .Since 2002, the Missile Defense Agency has been exempted from standard testing standards, allowing it to rush prototypes into the field. “The hurried deployment has compromised the system’s effectiveness and reliability. [2] Do we want an “interceptor missile site” in our county? Two other locations under consideration have lower population densities than Portage: (Jefferson County, New York (120,262), and Franklin County, Maine (30,630). THIS IS Portage’s ONLY CHANCE TO STAND UP AND SAY NO. MISSILE DEFENSE LOCATIONS ARE TARGETS. The final decision will be made in December. IS A MISSILE SITE AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT? ONLY IN THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE. Military bases use military personnel, not local employees. OTHER REASONS YOU MIGHT NOT WANT A MISSILE SITE AT CAMP RAVENNA 1. Portage is tied for the largest number of “fracking waste” injection wells in the state. Research increasingly ties these injection wells to seismic activity. Is a potentially seismic area a good place for a missile site? 2. Portage County has huge oil-carrying tanker cars on our highways and increasingly on the rails. Oil tanker accidents are on the rise. What would the risks be of a tanker explosion near the Arsenal? 3. Property in all of Portage would certainly depreciate. A “missile site” is not likely to attract new homeowners. 4. Military people don’t spend money in the county. They get what they need at huge discounts on the base. When they shop outside the base, they don’t pay full price, but use their military I.D. cards and receive great discounts. 5. We are too densely populated for this project. Portage County has 331 persons per square mile. Other potential sites: Franklin County, Maine has 18 people per square mile, and Jefferson County, New York, has 91.6 people per square mile. 6. A site developed for missile interception would also expand. In time, it might offer storage for nuclear warheads or provide central control for drone technology and other strategic forces vulnerable to terrorist attack. The Arsenal’s 21,418 acres have already been used for storage. 7. Camp Ravenna’s 21,418 acres could be used for OTHER, SAFER, more economically positive projects to benefit Portage County and the State of Ohio. PLEASE ATTEND THE MEETING. WE HAVE ONLY ONE CHANCE TO VOICE OUR CONCERNS. IF POSSIBLE, WRITE OUT YOUR CONCERNS, EVEN IF BRIEFLY, AND SIGN THEM WITH YOUR SIGNATURE AND ADDRESS SO THEY BECOME PART OF THE PERMANENT PUBLIC RECORD.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 03:43:30 +0000
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