Olcott Beach
June 6th, 2005, 02:33 PM
Attached is a letter that we should all be sending, in some form or another, in regards to saving the air base.
The economic impact cannot be predicted but I am sure it will be quite bad for an already decimated area...
Chairman Anthony J. Principi
Base Realignment and Closure Commission
2521 South Clark Street
Suite 600
Arlington VA, 22202
Dear Chairman Principi and BRAC Commissioners:
I suspect the decision-making that commences in regards to which bases are to remain open or closed is akin to placing names within a hat and randomly selected.
Aside from the huge financial impact that will surely further devastate the City of Niagara Falls, allow me to ask the question; “has not our fair, albeit, faltering city suffered enough at the hands of our government?”
History, gentlemen and respect needs to be recalled since it was the City of Niagara Falls and her once vast amount of industrial technology that provided this country with the means to ending WWII in the form of the Manhattan Project by creating the atomic bomb. If not for this city and its workers, many who suffered and still suffer from the after affects of radiation exposure, are treated as nothing more than casualties of war or simply a spent force. This entire region needs to be resurrected by government investment instead of being further destroyed as if we are the family dirty secret.
Companies that profited greatly and have long since departed this city leaving behind their toxic mess need to be recalled by our government and directed to reopen their facilities in either a mode of operation or a care-taking work force in the form of land and building remediation.
These companies need to be made accountable for the mess they left behind on huge acres of land such as the numerous sites once owned by companies like Union Carbide, Carborundum, et. al.
If not them, than the individual companies or profiteers who purchased the properties in hopes of claiming monetary acclaim from selling off equipment, buildings or scrap.
Closing the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Base is a travesty or a continuation of a travesty implemented by our own government fifty-years ago and it needs to end now and past mistakes need to be fully accounted for and not simply swept under the carpet.
Regards
The economic impact cannot be predicted but I am sure it will be quite bad for an already decimated area...
Chairman Anthony J. Principi
Base Realignment and Closure Commission
2521 South Clark Street
Suite 600
Arlington VA, 22202
Dear Chairman Principi and BRAC Commissioners:
I suspect the decision-making that commences in regards to which bases are to remain open or closed is akin to placing names within a hat and randomly selected.
Aside from the huge financial impact that will surely further devastate the City of Niagara Falls, allow me to ask the question; “has not our fair, albeit, faltering city suffered enough at the hands of our government?”
History, gentlemen and respect needs to be recalled since it was the City of Niagara Falls and her once vast amount of industrial technology that provided this country with the means to ending WWII in the form of the Manhattan Project by creating the atomic bomb. If not for this city and its workers, many who suffered and still suffer from the after affects of radiation exposure, are treated as nothing more than casualties of war or simply a spent force. This entire region needs to be resurrected by government investment instead of being further destroyed as if we are the family dirty secret.
Companies that profited greatly and have long since departed this city leaving behind their toxic mess need to be recalled by our government and directed to reopen their facilities in either a mode of operation or a care-taking work force in the form of land and building remediation.
These companies need to be made accountable for the mess they left behind on huge acres of land such as the numerous sites once owned by companies like Union Carbide, Carborundum, et. al.
If not them, than the individual companies or profiteers who purchased the properties in hopes of claiming monetary acclaim from selling off equipment, buildings or scrap.
Closing the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Base is a travesty or a continuation of a travesty implemented by our own government fifty-years ago and it needs to end now and past mistakes need to be fully accounted for and not simply swept under the carpet.
Regards