2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Buffalo, New York vs. Unshackle Upstate
 
City bars business group from brownfield site
Opposes approach of reform advocates

By Brian Meyer
Buffalo New
May 11, 2008

Mayor Byron W. Brown's administration barred a business group stumping for statewide reforms from holding a news conference on a city-owned brownfield last week because the administration disagrees with its advocacy approach and claims the plan wasn't cleared with City Hall.

Andrew J. Rudnick, the head of the region's largest business group, claims he was told that the mayor's communications chief didn't want Unshackle Upstate to hold a Thursday news conference "anywhere in the city."

Peter K. Cutler said the administration did block plans by the coalition to stage its event at Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park but would never have tried to ban the group from meeting in the city.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/343910.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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