http://niagaraatlarge.com/2010/03/08/buffalo-area-senator-calls-for-borrowing-5-billion-for-bond-to-invest-in-green-jobs-cleaner-environment/ An Independent Site For News and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://niagaraatlarge.com/2010/03/08/buffalo-area-senator-calls-for-borrowing-5-billion-for-bond-to-invest-in-green-jobs-cleaner-environment/#comment-3102 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:21:06 +0000 http://niagaraatlarge.com/?p=1244#comment-3102 This Senator makes a lot of valid comments,most of my family live in the Buffalo area, I know Buffalo like the back of my hand, much progress has been made on their former brownfields along route #5 especially. they are trying to upgrade their sewage systems as they threaten the boat harbors. They do seem to have a focus, god bless ‘em. If they can do it, why can’t we? the sewage lagoon within the borders of Niagara Falls, Ontario that serves Stevensville/Black Creek is spewing millions of gallons of semi-raw sewage into the Niagara river.It was supposed to be shut down ten years ago.

]]> http://niagaraatlarge.com/2010/03/08/buffalo-area-senator-calls-for-borrowing-5-billion-for-bond-to-invest-in-green-jobs-cleaner-environment/#comment-662 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:53 +0000 http://niagaraatlarge.com/?p=1244#comment-662 The sorriest environmental news I heard recently about our plight was the fact that in order to get a solar roof for a building in the Town of Tonawanda they had to hire 40 technicians from China to install the panels that were manufactured in china (where else?)\Bills like Senator Thompson’s can start us back on a course that Jimmie Carter urged forty years ago. Sustainable and self sufficient energy must be our goal.

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