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 a catalyst for other redevelopment initiatives in the broader Elk Street Corridor and South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area.
SITE BACKGROUND: For over 100 years the Buffalo Color Facility was involved in the production of indigo dye, most commonly found in blue jeans. As a direct result, the soil and ground water at and around the facility have been contaminated.
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Buffalo Niagara Region: Bob Gale Complex
LOCATION: Niagara Falls, Ontario
PROPOSED USE: New sports complex will house four NHL-sized ice surfaces, including one 2,000 seat arena, and will replace several older recreation centers around the community. When completed, Niagara Falls will have the most up-to-date, modern
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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
Nearly every community in New York State is affected by contaminated and abandoned properties, or brownfield sites. Left untouched, brownfields pose environmental, legal and financial burdens
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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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