[CPEO-BIF] "Grant will allow reuse of Elmira [Michigan] site as energy distribution center"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grant will allow reuse of Elmira site as energy distribution center

By Paul Welitzkin
Petoskey News-Review (MI)
August 31, 2021


GAYLORD — The Otsego County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is partnering with the Wolverine Power Cooperative to make a contaminated property in Elmira Township safe for reuse as a new energy service center.

A $74,000 Brownfield Redevelopment Grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) will pay for proper disposal of contaminated soil and demolition of a concrete storage pit.

Otsego County Economic Alliance Executive Director Lisa McComb, who is also the director of the brownfield redevelopment authority, said Wolverine Power purchased 75 acres in Antrim County and an adjacent one-acre parcel near Elmira in Otsego County.

The grant from EGLE will fund demolition and cleanup efforts on that one acre site to facilitate development of a new $4 million distribution center for Wolverine.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2021/08/31/grant-enable-remediation-elmira-site-new-energy-distribution-center/5600794001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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