[CPEO-BIF] Declare Detroit (MI) says "NO to Brownfield Tax Credits for Waste Incinerator"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NO to Brownfield Tax Credits for Waste Incinerator

by Declare Detroit
December 12, 2011


Tomorrow, the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) will review a  
request from Detroit Renewable Power for $4.1 million in Detroit  
Brownfield tax credits for the waste incinerator.

As dedicated residents who really want to see sensible use of our tax  
dollars, we urge the state to deny this request. (To see our letter  
to MEGA, click here: http://bit.ly/v4d7vB)

We expect our city and state governing boards to use redevelopment  
incentives to incentivize redevelopment. And, in fact, they have used  
those incentives to bring about good investment in projects such as  
the Westin Book Cadillac, the Fort Shelby Double Tree Hotel, the A.  
Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education (aka the Argonaut  
Building), Compuware, the Odd Fellows Hall, the Lithuanian Hall and  
others.

We cheer when our political leadership does good, and smack our heads  
and want to leave when they do bad, like approving subsidies for the  
nation’s largest incinerator.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.facebook.com/notes/declare-detroit/no-to-brownfield-tax- 
credits-for-waste-incinerator/10150449887128673

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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