Apr. 26—Residents of northern Niagara County are beginning to let out cautiously optimistic sighs of relief. Long-awaited cleanup work is set to begin in May on a former TNT plant and radioactive waste storage site in the Town of Lewiston. The 191-acre Niagara Falls Storage Site, formerly part of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works property, was used to manufacture TNT, or trinitrotoluene, in 1941 ...
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Apr. 21—CATSKILL — New York's push to develop more green energy is changing the upstate landscape, with solar farms popping up in what used to be pastures, fallow cropland and industrial sites across the region. In addition to these installations, another type of development is emerging. Rather than solar panels, energy developers are starting to put up battery energy storage systems, or ESS ...
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Apr. 15—There is something sprouting out of the ground at the construction site of the $1.7 billion new Buffalo Bills stadium in Orchard Park. It is structural steel and the start of flooring on the decks of the stadium's second level. Two months after the project's first steel was placed beneath the ground in the lower level of the huge bowl that is the foundation for the stadium, the ...
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NEW YORK, April 5 -- Consolidated Edison, a provider of energy-related products and services, issued the following news release:National Grid Ventures (NGV) and Con Edison Transmission this week submitted a proposal to build transmission infrastructure that will carry offshore wind power to New Jersey's electric grid.The Garden State Energy Path will enable delivery of approximately 6 ...
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Mar. 19—There are signs that plans for the massive Amazon warehouse in the Town of Niagara are starting to move forward. Last August's purchase by Amazon of 217 acres of vacant land in the Town of Niagara was the first — but so far only — sign that the long-awaited $550 million regional distribution center project was finally moving forward. Now, the venture to construct the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred’s Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control and sometimes didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the radiators ran so hot that residents had to keep their windows open in the middle of winter for relief. That all changed a few months ago, when she got a window-mounted heat pump as ...
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Mar. 8—STATE CAPITOL — State Sen. Neil Breslin and Assemblyman David Weprin are pushing for passage of a bill that would make staging a construction site accident a class E felony, in order to combat what they call a growing trend of insurance fraud. Speaking at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Breslin, D-Albany, said both individuals and criminal organizations are increasingly using staged ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers wanted to ask voters whether to ban new fossil fuel-fired power plants. And then they added a loophole big enough to drive a fleet of oil trucks through. A state Senate committee on Monday advanced a bill that would authorize a public referendum on amending the state's Constitution to ban construction of new power plants that burn natural gas or other ...
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Feb. 26—A consultant has been brought on to help the Buffalo Bills and general contractor Gilbane/Turner reach their goals for hiring women- and minority-owned businesses in the building of the $1.7 billion Bills stadium. Developments by Jem, a construction and development and project management consulting company in Buffalo, was brought on a few weeks ago to start engaging with local minority ...
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Feb. 26—Prosecutors in New York have charged a Bethel contractor with negligent homicide in the death of a construction worker nearly three years ago, after they say the contractor failed to take precautions while digging a 9-foot trench, causing it to collapse and bury the worker. Michael Conway was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of second-degree reckless endangerment in the death ...
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