2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Northern Ethanol, Niagara Falls, New York
 
NIAGARA FALLS: Ethanol company seeks state help

By Dan Miner
Niagara Gazette (NY)
March 18, 2008

Northern Ethanol is hinging its $220 million hopes for a Niagara Falls 
facility on whether it's accepted into a state program which trades tax 
credits for evidence of environmental cleanup and redevelopment.

"It's a very big key," said Natalie Horrell, director of corporate 
relations for the Toronto-based company. "We still hope to break ground 
in the first quarter of 2008, but much is contingent on a successful 
brownfield application."

Northern Ethanol confirmed in December that it planned to buy a 47th 
Street parcel from Praxair, Inc. and turn it into an ethanol producing 
facility with more than 100 jobs.

The sale agreement of that land is contingent on acceptance into the 
state Brownfield Cleanup Program, administered by the state Department 
of Environmental Conservation. Northern Ethanol has applied to that 
program and the DEC is currently reviewing the application, according to 
DEC spokesperson Megan Gollwitzer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_077234811.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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