2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

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, 2010


FLINT, 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

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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