[CPEO-BIF] "Lawsuit halts Baltimore [Maryland] casino construction"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawsuit halts Baltimore casino construction

ABC-2 TV News (Baltimore, MD)
March 12, 2013

BALTIMORE - Seventy year old Merab Rice has lived in Westport for a  
little more than ten years.

...

Rice says the casino site on Russell street was a heavy industrial  
area and pollutants found in the soil seven years ago.

She says nothing changed but developers and the state don't seem to  
be paying much attention to what could happen to the river, a park  
and her neighborhood once the casino and massive parking garage are  
built.

"They did a study on the grounds down there and found the  
contamination and came back and reported it and that’s been all  
shoved under the carpet and they don't want to comply with that they  
just want to put this casino up and whatever, how fair is that to the  
people?" Rice says.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/region/baltimore_city/lawsuit-halts- 
baltimore-casino-construction

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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>
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