Half-dozen sites will receive massive state funding to assist returning formerly abandoned, contaminated or otherwise unproductive property to commercial and residential uses.
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ACWR's green railcar innovation is saving $250,000 per year in diesel fuel costs and cutting pollution by 40 percent. …
Small Projects Make Big Difference in Communities Across America. …
Awards will create green jobs and reduce energy costs. …
Expansion initiative could have impact on brownfields redevelopments abroad. …
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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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 closing of the four-decade old mill left some 500 area residents unemployed,
sending the region’s unemployment rate skyrocketing to more than 20 percent.
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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 journal for the record (that would be this one)?
It’s an interesting question because on the one hand, if there’s any viable takeaways or real application for stakeholders in North …
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 and is the liaison with other city departments, government agencies and the public.
In short, Albright executes and …
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 car2go—carried out in conjunction with German auto maker Daimler AG.
The car-share initiative represents the nation’s largest pilot program of its …
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 lending environment, leading toward “redevelopment stagnation.”
Some have postulated that matching up green jobs with brownfield sites in these
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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 the removal of contaminants from the ground.
These decisions also affect air emissions, water resources, land and ecosystems, energy requirements, materials consumption and long-term sustainability. Considering the environmental …
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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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 city of De Soto since 1998. Prior to that appointment, she was a legal assistant for 21 years in Johnson County, Kan. Attending Rockhurst College and Johnson County …
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 formerly occupied by a petroleum plant, a hardware store, and private residences. The city of Branson, in an effort to expand its tourism industry, acquired the property for …
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. Your best bet likely is going to be land assets associated with
the mining properties that have little or no intrinsic value, such as tailings
impoundments and waste rock heaps. …
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.
What in the world is the meaning of a “brownfield” in these cultures? Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are …
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 of Agreement was announced with the New York State Dept. of
Environmental Conservation, which following city legislation enacted Earth Day
2009, authorizes the New York City Office of Environmental Remediation …
