[CPEO-BIF] Beaver County, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Getting brownfields to produce green

By J.D. Prose
Beaver Times (PA)
February 28, 2013

If Shell Chemical Co. decides to build its $2.5 billion ethane  
cracker plant in Potter Township, officials in Beaver County hope it  
spurs the long-awaited development of nearby brownfields.

"There's going to be economic development in the region without a  
doubt," said state Rep. Jim Christiana, R-15, Beaver, "but if we  
don't invest in brownfield development in Beaver County, (companies)  
are going to go to other sites."
Brownfields, or former manufacturing or industrial sites, line the  
Ohio River from the Beaver-Allegheny County line west toward Midland.  
There are also a slew of reclaimed or empty brownfield sites away  
from the river, including the WestGate Business Park in Big Beaver  
and the former home of Babcock & Wilcox Co. in Beaver Falls.

Beaver County, Christiana said, needs to be aggressive in preparing  
brownfields for development as ancillary companies that might rely on  
the cracker plant's products or provide goods or services to it start  
surveying the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesonline.com/special_sections/progress_edition/getting- 
brownfields-to-produce-green/article_7afdfa03- 
f555-56cf-89f6-02a3cf6585c9.html

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