[CPEO-BIF] Georgia-Pacific site, Gaylord, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Redevelopment plan for former Georgia-Pacific site announced

By Chris Engle
Gaylord Herald Times (MI)
May 11, 2010

GAYLORD - The former Georgia-Pacific (G-P) site may become the state's 
"flagship" eco-industrial park with a biomass power plant, lumber yard 
and mill and wood pellet manufacturing facility proposed to become 
Northern Michigan Eco-Industrial Park.

Additionally, developers are proposing a Center for Environmentally 
Sustainable Studies on site, dedicated to "research, development, job 
training and mentoring activities" related to green jobs, power 
generation and development of eco-industrial parks, according to Eco 
Park Partners, LLC.

Phase one of the project, which includes renovating existing buildings 
and constructing a biomass power plant,

* will involve approximately $120 to $152 million in private investment;

* and could create 170 full-time jobs within five years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gaylordheraldtimes.com/articles/2010/05/12/news/latest_news/doc4be9a975b8bb5703226662.txt

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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@cpeo.org>
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