[CPEO-BIF] Insurance for former GE Pittsfield (Massachusetts) site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Business park on former-brownfield renews environmental insurance

By Tony Dobrowolski
Berkshire Eagle (MA)
August 24, 2012

PITTSFIELD -- The Pittsfield Economic Development Authority has  
retained environmental insurance for the William Stanley Business  
Park of the Berkshires, with approval coming just days before the  
previous 10-year policy ran out.

Executive Director Cory Thurston said PEDA’s Finance Committee  
approved the new policy at the end of last week. The old policy  
expired on Tuesday.

"It went down to the wire because we were exploring a lot of options  
with the insurance company," said Thurston, noting that PEDA also  
switched insurance carriers.

PEDA is the quasi-public agency charged with developing the 52-acre  
Stanley Business Park that is located on the site of General  
Electric’s former power transformer facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_21388498/business-park-former- 
brownfield-renews-environmental-insurance

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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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