2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 7 Aug 2007 17:31:22 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Brownfield wine
 
Brownfield-based vineyard ready to expand

Associated Press
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram (OH)
August 7, 2007

FAIRPORT HARBOR - Walking across chalky ground on a hot day at a large industrial brownfield, grape researcher Imed Dami points with pride to rows of green, leafy vines at a small, experimental vineyard.

Can this brownfield - monitored by environmental regulators due to a history of chemical hazards - really produce potable red (Cabernet Franc) and white (Riesling) varieties?

"You know what? That's a good question," says Dami, an Ohio State University horticulture professor. "That's a perception. We try to do our research as objectively as possible, and we haven't seen anything for the public to worry about."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.chroniclet.com/2007/08/04/brownfield-based-vineyard-ready-to-expand/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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