[CPEO-BIF] "GM Tonawanda [New York] going for green"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

GM Tonawanda going for green

David Bertola
Buffalo Business First (NY)
June 17, 2013

Use of the word "plant" when referring to the General Motors Co.  
Tonawanda Engine facility took on a different meaning on June 14,  
when 100 students planted shrubs and plant seedlings that will help  
transform old brownfield space into a green area that will become a  
wildlife habitat.

The area to be planted within the 190-acre property was once occupied  
by the GM (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) Tonawanda Foundry. Built in the  
mid-1950's, the 10-acre area was decommissioned and left idle after  
its last pour in 1984. When the Tonawanda Engine plant was awarded  
the Ecotec 2.2L business in 1997, the building was torn down to make  
room for a 100,000 square foot shipping dock and a rail spur required  
for the new engine program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2013/06/17/gm-tonawanda- 
getting-greener.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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