From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:04:18 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Scavenging the "Old GM" (Flint, Michigan) |
Amid Blight and Scavenging, ‘Old G.M.’ Plants Linger By BILL VLASIC and NICK BUNKLEY New York Times September 14, 2010FLINT, Mich. - By day, hundreds of General Motors workers make pistons and other engine parts at a factory on this city's east side. By night, gangs of thieves have repeatedly looted empty G.M. plants on the same property, and have twice fired shots at security guards. The scene at Flint North, as the complex of mostly closed factories is known, is a vivid reminder that the automaker's bankruptcy last year gave birth to two different G.M.'s - and that one of them is struggling in the shadow of the other. When American taxpayers bailed out General Motors, the company was split, with the best assets going to the reorganized automaker of the same name. This new General Motors is selling cars, making money and preparing a public stock offering. ... For the entire article, see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/business/15auto.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Flint&st=cse -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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