Navy will shut down Project ELF

[sybylla]

http://www.madison.com/tct/news//index.php?ntid=10409&ntpid=1
Madison Capital Times
By The Associated Press
September 18, 2004

CLAM LAKE, Wis. - Project ELF, a magnet for anti-war protesters for the past three decades, will be shut down later this month.

The U.S. Navy said Friday it will turn off two submarine communication systems in northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan and permanently dismantle them because they are outdated and no longer needed.

The Navy's extremely low frequency (ELF) radio transmitter in the Chequamegon National Forest near Clam Lake has been the site of repeated demonstrations by anti-nuclear weapons activists.

The Navy also will shut down a similar transmitter in Michigan's Escanaba State Forest near Republic.

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I find it interesting that this came out on Friday but I have not seen much of a play of it in the press, even in Wisconsin where it has been a big deal for protesters for decades.

I'm not sure why, but I'm a bit suspicious of its sudden closing and their reasoning. Guess I'm just too cynical.

[Lautremont]

1. Now we've got to work on shutting down Project ALF.

Leave the shaggy little guy alone, for gosh sakes!

[soothsayer]

2. I'm suspicious too! I wonder what they've replaced it with. n/t

[sybylla]

3. FYI - this is the system that was being blamed for misleading Pilot Whale

I'm curious if the new system will have the same effects or if they've just moved the old system off-shore.