The Superior Daily Telegram, May 12, 1997: 'Time to cut funding for ELF'

While the protests have become part of the Mother's Day tradition here in the Northland, it is time they come to an end. Federal funding for ELF should be cut and the transmitter shut down.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 10, 1995: 'ELF deserves to be quietly retired'

The Soviet threat has collapsed, and along with it the need for a range of strategic weapons and communications systems, including Project ELF. It's time to give Project ELF a dignified retirement.

The Eau Claire,WI Leader-Telegram, April 10, 1995: 'It's best to laugh so you won't cry'

Now that we know the Russians can't even harvest their potatoes we don't have to worry too much about their unleashing a surprise nuclear attack on us. So in light of the 'Contract With America', complete with talk of balanced budgets, it would seem that cutting the $14 million for Project ELF would be a cinch.

The Eau Claire,WI Leader-Telegram, October 26, 1995: 'Sadly, this ELF is no fairy tale'

The military budget shouldn't be another welfare program used to provide jobs that we don't need, such as those associated with Project ELF. If Congress can't eliminate something as worthless as ELF, we might as well forget about any meaningful reform of federal government..

The Ashland, WI Daily Press, January 14, 1995: 'Close ELF facility'

What little purpose there was for the extremely low frequency transmitter in Clam Lake during the height of the Cold War is nonexistent since the Soviet Union evaporated and took the Cold War with it. With the spotlight turned on government spending, the ELF facility is a colossal waste of taxpayers' dollars. If that $16.5 million [annually] were invested in economic development in northern Wisconsin the beneficial impact would be far greater than ELF offers.

The Ashland, WI Daily Press, January 24, 1995: 'ELF editorial information was correct'

As the Defense Department was reviewing the ELF plans in 1981, Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, Chief of Naval Operations, recommended to Congress that ELF not be built. "No threat has emerged that causes us concern about our missile submarine force," he said. Simply stated, in 1981, when the Cold War still raged, the Navy didn't want ELF and said it wasn't needed.

The Wausau Daily Herald, October 2, 1994: 'Pull the plug now on Navy's Project ELF'

Hey, Pentagon, the Cold War is over. We won. So why are we spending millions of dollars to maintain Project ELF?

In this era of cooperation with the Russians-President Clinton said last week we're partners now-against whom is ELF guarding? . ELF isn't needed. It isn't wanted. It's an unwarranted expense. Shut down ELF and save taxpayers some money.

The Inter-County Leader (Frederic, WI), May 5, 1993: 'Questioning Project ELF'

Serious questions about the project have been asked since its inception, one of which addresses potential health risks electromagnetic waves pose to animals and humans. . Our own Congressman, David Obey, has posed blunt questions to [Defense Secretary Les] Aspin, including..., "What was the last set of studies done specific to ELF and what needs to be updated on those studies as a result of what we have learned about ELF (electromagnetic fields) since that time?"

While the disruptions by protesters at the ELF site can't be condoned, the news articles of arrests and peaceful protests, along with the steadfast convictions of a handful of people, have kept this issue alive and of concern to the general public.