Buffalo Niagara Region
By Steve Dwyer
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 Buffalo Niagara is a part of the Great Lakes region of North America, comprising most of western New York in the U.S. and the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. The Regional Institute of the University of Buffalo has defined the region as including the eight westernmost counties in New York, as well as the Regional Municipality of Niagara and Hamilton in Ontario.
These eight counties in New York include: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming. The two municipalities in Canada that comprise the region are Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario
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LOCATION: Niagara Falls, Ontario
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Buffalo Niagara Region: Buffalo Color Redevelopment
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PROPOSED USE: Light industrial use. The project will allow for public access to significant riverfront green space; provide potential for new jobs and tax revenues; offer
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Buffalo Niagara Region: Steel Winds
LOCATION: Lackawanna, New York
REDEVELOPED USE: A 20-megawatt wind farm with eight turbines generating enough electric power for 9,000 residents. The wind turbines deliver power to the area power grid through electrical infrastructure that remained from the previous uses.
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Buffalo Niagara Region: Policies
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Environmental Cleanup & Brownfields
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  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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