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Why they didnt go for a brownfield is really unclear. Yes, there is a lot of anti Musk sentiment. But people want jobs, and battery related industries is a good
by ggm 1y ago
Why they didnt go for a brownfield is really unclear. Yes, there is a lot of anti Musk sentiment. But people want jobs, and battery related industries is a good line of business to be in.
There has to be some land-value/speculative play quality to this, because a greenfield is about the worst pick for this kind of thing.
- defrost 1y agoI understand much of the objection as being the same for any proposed development of public land that's open for walking and part of the green space of a community. This particular site has that appearance with a lurking twist: City of Marion councillor Sarah Luscombe has urged the council to “think really carefully” about other options for the state-owned land, which has been closed to the public since 2016 due to heavy contamination. "Heavy contamination" has the tone of a long past toxic industry, a tannery, something electrochemical, making it perhaps just greenfield in living memory.
- ggm 1y agoCertainly does happen. Up here in Brisbane some "parkland" by the river has both post-industrial waste (town gas residues) and acid sulphate soils. Bits of inner sydney its Cyanide from printing industry, Lead from backyard smelting. you name it. But as others have noted with the retreat of the car industry it's not like there aren't other brownfield sites in S.A.
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- quinndexter 1y agore. greenfield: state-owned land, which has been closed to the public since 2016 due to heavy contamination.