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COVER STORY --
By Elizabeth Brewster
Survey the European brownfield landscape, and you’ll know you’re not in Kansas anymore.
Even a ballpark estimate of European brownfield numbers remains an elusive goal, say experts, because every country uses different terminology for its contaminated land.
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Environmental remediation
By Ileen Gladstone
Each decision made during the cleanup of contaminated properties has an impact on our natural environment and our future well-being. Environmental professionals make choices throughout the lifecycle of investigation/cleanup projects that affect more than just …
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Project of the Month
Brownfields and natural gas exploration in the Barnett Shale, North Texas
PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: The Barnett Shale, currently the largest natural gas-producing field in the U.S., covers an area of approximately 5,000 square miles in North Texas. Since …
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Features
ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT
By Cindy Sorgea
When the Smurfit-Stone paper mill closed in November 2008 in Portage-du-Fort, Quebec, a small village in the
Pontiac Region one hour outside of the nation’s capital in Ottawa, the economic impact was devastating. The …
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Perspective
Voila! The nation’s first municipal brownfield cleanup plan.
While many cities have exciting brownfields efforts, New York is the first to
have its own municipally-run brownfield remediation program. On August 9, 2010
a Memorandum …
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Regional Report
By Steve Dwyer
Like most of its neighboring Plains States, Kansas places a lot of stock in its rich, productive farmlands. Greenfields are supposed to remain pristine, and in Kansas the encroachment on farmland for redevelopment has two options: Slim and none.
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By Steve Dwyer
Meet the people of interest in Kansas and Oklahoma who are helping effect change in the brownfield and renewable resources industry.
Lana McPherson,
City Clerk, DeSoto, Kan.
McPherson has served as city clerk with the …
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PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: The site covers 66.0799 acres. The Dell customer service center was built in 2005. …
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LOCATION: Sycamore and Pacific streets, Branson, Mo.
BACKGROUND: This 95-acre site situated along Lake Taneycomo was originally home to a marina, trout fishing cottages, and a gas station. The area across Box Car Willie Dr. was …
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Oklahoma:
For more information on brownfield rules and regulations in the state, please visit:
http://www.deq.state.ok.us/lpdnew/brownfindex.html
Kansas:
For more information on brownfield rules and regulations in the state, please visit:
http://www.kdheks.gov/brownfields/index.html
Missouri:
For more information on brownfield rules and regulations in the state, please …
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TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
By Elizabeth Brewster
What do you do with 44 drawers crammed full of brownfield site files?
In Elkhart County, Ind., those file cabinets were replaced with an easy-to-use
Web-based GIS tool called e-Atlas, which offers instant …
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View from the Field
By Blair Loftis
When searching for a renewable asset site, solar and wind farm developers
generally focus on land control and land availability—features that active and inactive mines have in abundance. You just have to know
where to look. …
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View from the Field
By Ken Kastman
I traveled within the last several months to visit relatives in Northern Europe
and to Engineers Without Borders (EWB) assignments deep into Central America.
My mind is reeling with the dichotomy of cultures. …
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Departments
Channel Surfing
By Steve Dwyer
Rosanne Albright is accustomed to getting things done in the Valley of the Sun.
Managing the city of Phoenix’s Brownfields Land Recycling Program since its inception in 1998, Albright
conducts the day-to-day management of the program …
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From the Editor
By Steve Dwyer
Do you care about the state of brownfields in other countries, from Western Europe to Russia to South and Latin America to the Pacific Rim? Or more specifically, do you care about reading about it in your Brownfield …
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Green Professionals
By Evans Paull
Developing a Green job Strategy for Older Industrial Cities
Older industrial cities face a common plight—a surplus of vacant and under-utilized former industrial land, combined with poor economic conditions and an unfavorable …
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In Transit
By Steve Dwyer
If more of the 1,100 employees in Austin, Texas, start requesting additional “field work” from their supervisors, there’s a valid explanation: In a year-long pilot program, the city of Austin is
testing a transportation concept called …
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Gail Rawls Jeter Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
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Susan Boyle Mt. Laurel, N.J.
Senior Manager and Program Developer at GEI Consultants,
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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