2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 23 Aug 2006 04:35:44 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Biofuels from brownfields
 
Greening the state's brownfields: MSU program tries to convert polluted sites to crops
Dumping grounds can grow plants for fuel, not food


By Matthew Miller
Lansing State Journal
August 22, 2006

Kurt Thelen is growing crops in polluted soil this summer.

His plots of corn and switchgrass, soybeans, sunflowers and canola are planted on a former Superfund site in Oakland County, land used in the late 1960s as a dumping ground for lead paint sludge and other industrial chemicals.

The crops he's growing there will be too toxic for human consumption. But these crops aren't meant for the dinner table.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/NEWS06/608220336/1001/opinion

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