I think it’s time for the pin-headed bureaucrats and the environmentalists to sit down and shut up. Why do we need an environmental study to see if several acres of foot-deep concrete is a danger? It’s been there for half a century, everything you can think of and a lot you can’t has already been dumped on it, so a little welding slag is not going to present any danger. Any dandelions or ants living there will just have to take their chances. Besides, I can’t imagine Nichols Brothers purposely doing something to damage the environment, not with all the tree huggers we have around here.

For you economic illiterates, we need the jobs, we need the money, we need the business. Every one of the 2 to 4 million dollars in wages will turn roughly four times before leaving. For those of you arithmetically challenged, that means 8 to 16 million dollars for the area. What we don’t need are more studies, reports, committees, regulations or bureaucracy. It’s time for the people who do things to go to work and ignore the folks who just talk, and talk and talk.

If the Navy just gave the property to Nichols, everybody would be money ahead. Hooray for Nichols Bros. telling all these organic road blocks to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

Rick Kiser

Oak Harbor