- Hello Jeff - Before Patty Doyle's Condo can be constructed
on the Poison Plum Pork Chop Island, known as Doyle's Plum Estates, the
DHS will have to remove abandoned and polluted buildings, lead and asbestos
abatment, removal of all RESEARCH CONTAMINATED MATERIAL AND conduct full
BIOLOGICAL DECONTAMINATION. The soil may also contain chemicals and petroleum.
Remember Prions may also be in the soil. The Vermont sheep infected with
BSE were experimented upon there and incinerated there and buried. We
know that prions do not neutralize. Eons go by and the creamated prions
are still infective. Some of the research biological contamination is
comprised of bioweapons. Anthrax another possibility lurking in the soil
of Doyle's Plum Island Paradise Estates.
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- "If the site closes completely, the department will
have to address issues such as the removal of abandoned buildings, lead
and asbestos abatement, removal of all research material, and biological
decontamination. The report also anticipates that some of the soil on the
island may be contaminated by petroleum."
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- "It also projected that it would take more than
two years to close the facility and prepare it for a new use."
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- "Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm that produced
the report, worked under the assumption that the department would sell
the island if it decided to close the research center. Planning for closure
would begin in 2011 in order to have the site finished by 2017."
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- So, as I said last night, Plum Island will be decommissioned
and sold to the highest bidder. Once sold even condos could go up
there. Anything is possible. I may be having a little fun with the idea
of Doyle's Condos but the reality is such that a buyer could, indeed, do
whatever he or she wants with the land and that could include building
Condos.
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- A real Love Canal in waiting! Plum Island will not "die
easily." Who knows what sort of bioweapons were out there buried
in leaky steel drums...
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- Patty
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- Bishop Wants Plum Island Lab to Stay
- By Jennifer Landes
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- Despite the apparent finality of the Department of Homeland
Security's naming of a site in Kansas to replace the 50-year-old Plum Island
Animal Disease Center, Representative Tim Bishop said this week that the
decision was not necessarily final, particularly given current economic
realities and the change in presidential administrations next year.
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- The department said the strengths of the proposed
site in Manhattan, Kan., for the study of deadly diseases transferable
to both animals and humans were its proximity to Kansas State University's
research facilities and relevant work force, minor environmental impacts,
and strong community support for the facility.
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- If a similar facility were built at Plum Island,
which now studies only diseases communicable between animals, it would
have cost an additional $250 million to build, and there was little if
any community support for it.
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- In fact, Mr. Bishop said, "I and Senator [Hillary]
Clinton lobbied heavily that the [new facility] not go to Plum Island.
The decision not to build it at Plum Island is welcome."
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- Still, he said, once the federal government had chosen
a site for the new facility, "it became incumbent upon me and Senator
[Charles] Schumer and whoever takes Senator Clinton's place to lobby for
another use of Plum Island." With a significant amount of taxpayer
money invested this year in Plum Island's infrastructure, about $60 million,
he said, "it was foolish to walk away from the facility." At
stake are about 300 jobs and the indirect economic benefits the site provides
the East End.
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- Mr. Bishop said that in conversations with Michael
Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security, they had discussed using the
site as a research and development facility for alternative fuel sources
under the Department of Energy, but he classified the talks as "very
preliminary."
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- Additionally, with no guarantee that the new facility
will be built, Plum Island could continue its study of live animal viruses
such as foot-and-mouth disease and swine fever. Diseases requiring stricter
safety and security protocols could be studied at existing labs with those
standards.
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- Mr. Bishop said he was not alone in his views. The
House Energy and Commerce Committee has expressed worries about the abandonment
of the investment on Plum Island and the wisdom of bringing live viruses
affecting livestock onto the mainland, as well as the necessity of the
new research center.
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- "It was a priority of the Bush administration.
I don't know if it's a priority of the Obama administration," Mr.
Bishop said.
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- In July, the department released a report that detailed
the costs of closing Plum Island or having it become something else, but
the costs are blacked out in the report on the department's Web site. The
report was commissioned to be considered as part of the decision on where
to locate the new facility.
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- If the site closes completely, the department will
have to address issues such as the removal of abandoned buildings, lead
and asbestos abatement, removal of all research material, and biological
decontamination. The report also anticipates that some of the soil on the
island may be contaminated by petroleum.
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- The new facility is planned to be finished by 2014
and in operation by the beginning of 2015. The department report assumed
that with its recent upgrades, Plum Island could remain operative until
2019. It also projected that it would take more than two years to close
the facility and prepare it for a new use.
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- Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm that produced
the report, worked under the assumption that the department would sell
the island if it decided to close the research center. Planning for closure
would begin in 2011 in order to have the site finished by 2017.
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- http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Home/News/PlumIsland/tabid/7394/Default.aspx
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my
new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
Go with God and in Good Health
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