[CPEO-BIF] Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City sees riches in contaminated properties
Cleaning up abandoned sites for redevelopment would generate more tax 
dollars, official says

Patrick Dare
The Ottawa Citizen (ONT)
January 8, 2007

The City of Ottawa is considering subsidizing the cleanup of 
contaminated properties as a way to get abandoned land redeveloped.

The list of Ottawa's brownfield properties, land that was typically 
contaminated by old industries, includes places such as Algonquin 
College's Rideau campus on Lees Avenue, vacant since 2002; the City 
Centre lands and 100 Landry St. in Vanier. Brownfield properties in 
Ottawa also include old gas stations where tanks have rusted out, and 
some former industrial properties in Westboro.

While Ottawa doesn't have nearly the number of brownfield properties as 
Toronto, it does have a development policy encouraging building in the 
core of the city.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=eae4c1cc-4e6d-4fd9-bddd-a0dd567df8c9&k=1619

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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