[CPEO-MEF] RANGES: "Hawaii Guard’s $800K warehouse newest upgrade to Big Island live-fire range"

[Lenny Siegel]

Hawaii Guard’s $800K warehouse newest upgrade to Big Island live-fire range

By WYATT OLSON 
STARS AND STRIPES 
March 8, 2018

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Hawaii Army National Guard will build an $800,000 warehouse to store equipment and supplies on a Big Island live-fire training area that has been the focus of local protests for the past decade.

The warehouse to be built at the Pohakuloa Training Area will allow the Guard to house vehicles, artillery equipment and other training supplies on the Big Island, saving time and money in moving gear between islands.

“Although the [Hawaii Guard] conducts training at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and at the PTA, PTA is approximately 133,000 acres, offering a significantly larger area for training,” Maj. Gen. Arthur Logan, adjutant general of the Hawaii Guard, wrote in the funding request to the state.

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In recent years activists with the local group Malu ‘Aina have argued that PTA should be shut down because of possible radioactive contamination by depleted uranium used in weapons training there during the 1960s.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/hawaii-guard-s-800k-warehouse-newest-upgrade-to-big-island-live-fire-range-1.515787

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org