
FAIRBANKS — The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer.
The shutdown of HAARP, a project created by the late Sen. Ted Stevens when he wielded great control over the U.S. defense budget, will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday.
The University of Alaska has expressed interest in taking over the research site, which is off the Tok Cutoff in an area where black spruce was cleared a quarter-century ago for the Air Force backscatter radar project that was never completed. But the school has not volunteered to pay $5 million a year to run HAARP.
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I think most people think HAARP in AK is the source of the weather problem, so it is yet another distraction to fool us.
Byron, they didn't sell it. Just said they were looking into it. It's the same story this year. Univ of AK won't fund it, so what would be the point.
Your right James they did the same thing last year when they said HAARP was being sold, to just redirect our attention away from what they are doing there. At this point The Air Force should not even be involved if they sold it last year.
Boy that thing is ugly you won't see that model at the boat show.
There is also a HAARP facility on the high seas:
Also see http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/05/floating-haarp-platform-s...