SEATTLE AIRPORT
July 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A CAMPAIGN against a proposed third runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport has been strengthened after Washington state government was allowed to join a lawsuit opposing the project. It claims the runway's wetland-construction permit was issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers without proof of the need for the US$1.1 billion project and ignored conditions in a separate water quality permit.
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A CAMPAIGN against a proposed third runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport has been strengthened after Washington state government was allowed to join a lawsuit opposing the project. It claims the runway's wetland-construction permit was issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers without proof of the need for the US$1.1 billion project and ignored conditions in a separate water quality permit.
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