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Electronic Warfare in Olympic Peninsula: comments due November 28th

 
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Electronic Warfare in Olympic Peninsula: comments due November 28th
(extended)

31 October 2014 at
8:20am |

by Arthur Firstenberg (www.cellphonetaskforce.org) |
reprinted from email
electronic-warfare-olympic-peninsula-wa
This rugged, beautiful Washington
Coast and the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula will soon be the site of
Electromagnetic War Games conducted by the US military… unless we speak up and
demand otherwise.
To All Concerned,
Unfortunately I didn’t learn about this terrifying Navy
project until today. The deadline for public comment is October 31, 2014
extended to November 28th. You may submit comments [or demand, or Notices of Liability, etc] about the plan to the US Forest Service here:
I urge you to send a comment, however brief, before the
deadline.
Briefly, the Navy is proposing to turn a large
part of Washington’s magnificent Olympic Peninsula, as well as a portion of
northeastern Washington, into Electronic Warfare training ranges.
A
giant antenna resembling a house-sized golfball will be installed at the Naval
Station at Moclips, just outside the Quinault Indian Reservation on the Olympic
Peninsula. According to the data in the Environmental Assessment, I calculate
that it will have an effective power of 5 million watts. It
will be capable of sending 64 simultaneous beams at frequencies of
between 2 and 18 GHz
. The golfball will only be 40 feet off the
ground.
protectthepeninsulaIn addition, three mobile,
truck-mounted antennas will be moved around between 15 different sites
in the Olympic National Forest
, and three more mobile antennas will
operate from 8 different locations in the Okanagan and Colville National Forests
in northeastern Washington. They will each have a power of 100,000 watts, and
will be in use 260 days a year, 8 to 16 hours a day. The city of Forks will be
directly in the line of fire, right between three of these locations and the
Pacific Ocean. The locations in the Colville National Forest are next to the
Colville Indian Reservation, about 70 miles northwest of Spokane, and one is
only 3 miles from the city of Oroville.
In addition, UHF transmitters will be added to an
existing tower on Octopus Mountain in the Olympic Peninsula for communication
with aircraft and ships.

Needless to say, the peace of the Olympic Peninsula will
be destroyed forever. The radiation in both locations will impact predominantly
native Americans.

Arthur Firstenberg,
www.cellphonetaskforce.org

UPDATE (2 Nov 2014) — RECEIVED FROM USDA FOREST
SERVICE:

In addition to extending the comment period, the City
of Port Angeles is hosting Navy and US Forest staff for a question and answer
session on Thursday, November 6th from 6-8pm in Port Angeles,
WA.  The location for this event is the City Council Chambers, located at
321 East Fifth Street, Port Angeles, WA.

Those wishing to provide input and have standing
(eligibility) during the future Objection period for this project can be
submitted to the project website,
http://go.usa.gov/785z, and click on the
“Comment on Project” link on the right side. If you have any questions regarding
the details of this proposal or have comments, please contact Greg Wahl at (360)
956-2375.

ACTION:
1)
Demand an immediate halt to all plans for Electromagnetic Warfare in the Olympic
Peninsula:

https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public//CommentInput?Project=42759    
2) Email your demand:
comments-pacificnorthwest-olympic-pacific@fs.fed.us and gtwahl@fs.fed.us
3) Sign and share this petition:
http://www.change.org/p/us-navy-do-not-put-any-camper-sized-trucks-with-electromagnetic-
radiation-equipment-to-conduct-war-exercises-with-military-aircraft-from-15-sites-in-clallam-jefferson-and-grays-harbor-counties

4) Continue outreach past all “deadlines”, enforcing
accountability and liability.

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