2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:13:18 -0800
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Niagara Greenspace Consortium, New York
 
Brownfield advocates lobby Albany


by David Bertola
Business First of Buffalo (NY)
January 26, 2009

The Niagara Greenspace Consortium is taking its plans for brownfield 
remediation to Albany.

The consortium focuses on acres of dormant property in Buffalo Niagara 
and designated as brownfields by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

On Feb. 2, Consortium Board President Phil Wilcox will be meeting with 
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner 
Pete Grannis to discuss the plan. The genesis of it, Wilcox said, was 
partially based on Gov. Paterson?s executive order to develop an energy 
plan and from a challenge posed by Empire State Development Chair Robert 
Wilmers, who cited a lack of shovel-ready sites available for 
development in the Niagara Region.

Wilcox is targeting $10 million to raise annually to apply toward 
remediation. He said his plan overlays nicely with the energy portion of 
the Buffalo Niagara Partnership?s 2009 Regional Agneda, and calls for 
working with environmental development agencies.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/01/26/daily13.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
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org




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