[CPEO-BIF] Former GM plants in Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

GM site cleanup leaves Lansing Twp. unhappy

Much work left to be done before Aug. 31 deadline

Barbara Wieland
Lansing State Journal (MI)
August 15, 2010

Lansing Township Supervisor John Daher is used to people asking him why 
a large swath of his township looks like a war zone.

Unfortunately, there's little he can do about it.

In the "zone" are the remnants of once-thriving General Motors Co. 
factories - the Lansing Craft Centre and the Lansing Metal Center. Both 
were shut down four years ago and both have been largely razed.

That has left heaps of rubble in Lansing Township. And though GM is 
supposed to demolish and clean up the sites as it prepares them for 
redevelopment, the part of the Detroit carmaker dubbed the "old GM" 
likely will miss an Aug. 31 deadline for finishing demolition and 
remediation work.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20100815/NEWS03/8150468/GM-site-cleanup-leaves-Lansing-Twp.-unhappy

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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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