[CPEO-BIF] Develop dominates Missouri brownfields tax credits

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stacy Hastie and his company dominate tax credits to clean up  
polluted sites

By JEREMY KOHLER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
November 18, 2012

It was late 2006, and crews from Environmental Operations Inc. were  
preparing the Lemay riverfront for the construction of River City  
Casino.

The most expensive state financed brownfield cleanup in Missouri  
history was under way on public land. And no government agency had  
publicly sought bids for the work, or announced the $16 million tax  
credit awarded to pay for it.

...

But Environmental Operations and its owner, Stacy W. Hastie, had a  
head start, as they almost always do on projects involving the  
Missouri brownfield redevelopment program. Hired by the casino  
operator, Pinnacle Entertainment, the firm was consulted on the  
cleanup from the planning stages.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/stacy-hastie-and- 
his-company-dominate-tax-credits-to-clean/ 
article_4a168325-8925-5eeb-82f2-653b877f4011.html

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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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