[CPEO-BIF] Muskegon, Michigan wind farm and ethanol plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Turning a 'brownfield' green


By John S. Hausman
Muskegon Chronicle (MI)
February 10, 2009


Muskegon Township officials are pondering a proposal to convert a 
blighted northside tank-farm property into a wind farm and 
wood-to-ethanol production plant.

It's far from a done deal, but if the innovative proposal checks out and 
works out, it could be Muskegon County's biggest economic development 
project in years.

The hoped-for economic outcome: 100 to 150 good-paying jobs on site, 
with an additional 200 to 300 spinoff construction and supplier jobs.

A newly formed consulting company proposes to be the catalyst for 
transformation of the old Zephyr Oil and Northshore Hospital properties. 
The adjacent 90 or so acres are a "brownfield" site on the north bank of 
the Muskegon River, with near-zero redevelopment prospects until now.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/chronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-16/123426452733360.xml&coll=8

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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