Interessanter Artikel zur Haarp-Schliessung:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130717/alaska-s-controversial-haarp-facility-closed-will-it-come-back-online (Archiv-Version vom 20.07.2013)Es wird von einer an Haarp beteiligten Universität die Schliessung bestätigt
Researchers with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a frequent collaborator on HAARP studies, were able to independently confirm that the facility was indeed closed -- the power and internet are currently off and the facility is unmanned.
Allerdings sieht man von Militärseite noch die Hoffnung auf eine wiederaufnahme des Betriebes:
Air Force officials are hopeful that the facility would open and resume operations in mid-August. DARPA currently has a sizeable funding bloc allocated for additional ionospheric research in the fall of 2013, so it will likely have to be open for that research.
Offizielle halten sich aber zurück: "Kein Kommentar"
Neither Marsh Creek nor Ahtna returned requests for comment Wednesday.
Einzelne Standpunkte der bisher an Haarp beteiligte werden aufgeführt, die sind alle optimistisch für einen zukünftigen Betrieb, der Artikel kommt aber zum Fazit, dass alles noch reine Spekulation ist und die Verfahrensweise eher so aussieht als wenn sich das Militär langsam ganz aus diesem (für sie bisher eher sinnloses Experiment) still herauszieht
The uncertainty about HAARP’s future could also signal a fading interest on the part of the U.S. military in continued HAARP research projects, perhaps due to a lack of viable defense applications. Wired Magazine reported in 2009 that HAARP cost about $10 million each year to operate, and noted that military officials were getting antsy as early as 1999 about turning HAARP into a viable military research installation -- “...the Pentagon wanted to know when its overpriced conspiracy-magnet would produce that battle-ready technology they'd been promised,” wrote Noah Shachtman.
Much of that, however, remains speculation. In the meantime, conspiracy theorists will just have to continue to posit that HAARP is controlling people’s minds, the tectonic plates, and even the weather.
“If (HAARP) could control the weather, I think (the military) would be a whole lot happier,” Watkins joked.