Biological weapons lab for butner (allergy, tax, live in)

[NC man]

That will be nice to have in the area. Ya and I know it does not say its a weapons lab but a bio research lab but this is the us defense dept lab, they will grow and culture all knds of nasty things.Public Hearing Set to Discuss Proposed Biodefense Lab :: WRAL.com

[momof3grls]

Just the thought that this is a project being handled by the Dept of Homeland Security makes me queasy.

[tee-tee]

Awesome, a bio-weapons lab to the north, a nuc-u-lar reactor to the south, landfills all around, crazed pitbulls roaming the streets - tell me again why people are moving here?

[RaleighBoundGeek]

by the way - BioDefense is NOT the same as a bio-weapons facility. One's DEFENSE, one's OFFENSE. What they're talking about is primarily research into how to counteract said agents, also including the various drug-resistant strains, etc...

But yes - they're going to be storing and handling infectious agents, and really nasty ones at that.

[mm34b]

Not a weapons lab. The creation and stockpiling of biological weapons was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. This research lab would develop new medical countermeasures against bioterrorism by rogue nations and other groups. It would be similar to the C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases currently in operation by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland.

[tee-tee]

Pardon the slip of the tongue. Bio-weapons, bio-defense, bio-logical, whatever - they need the OFFENSIVE agents and weapons in order to develop DEFENSIVE strategies.

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O and btw, I was kidding anyway - there seems to be a hysteria about potential man-made and man-induced calamaties in this forum.

[dansdrive]

The real question is will North Carolina or the Town of Butner provide tax advantages and utility redeuctions to this company to build their facility? How close will the plant be to the Falls Lake basin just in the extremely unlikely event of a ground water leak? OK so that was two questions, sorry I inferred I only had one.

[ducter]

Have one or 2 things like a reactor is one thing, but why is this area inviting all things with risk to it? Now if you start to add up the landfills, nuclear and now this, the chance that something bad overall happens here has been raised.

Seems like $$$ matters and nothing else...

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by dansdrive

The real question is will North Carolina or the Town of Butner provide tax advantages and utility redeuctions to this company to build their facility?

No, it would be a federal installation.

[autumngal]

The local government in Butner has been very good keeping this alive in the media and every week or so in the local papers, along with always reminding the residents for their input. We have not seen any hush, hush, surprise factors from them.
Now that they have all the info together, and it's coming down to the wire for the Lab to make a decision, they are having a meeting tonight, public of course invited.
And Butner is 1 of 5 areas I believe which is still under consideration.
DHS: DHS Completes Second Down-Select of Proposed Sites for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

And no I prefer it not be near my area or NC at all.

good info mm34b,