[CPEO-BIF] Solar manufacturing in Niagara Falls, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hope for a new chapter
Silicon production in Niagara Falls could bolster "green" economy

Buffalo News
June 30, 2008

Globe Specialty Metals is promising to locate in Niagara Falls, spending 
$60 million to reconfigure the existing metallurgical-grade silicon 
plant on Highland Avenue, which closed in 2003, to produce silicon 
products for the solar power industry.

There's a lot to like in that promise. The project would revive a 
distressed brownfield area in Niagara Falls, and Globe proposes that a 
quarter of its production can be earmarked to induce a solar panel 
manufacturer to the area. The state would gain significant leverage - 
the ability to offer 25 percent of what Globe is manufacturing - in its 
efforts to lure spinoff industry to an area that needs redevelopment 
attention.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/381629.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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