A reader points out an article in The Albany Times-Union (linked below) saying that embattled PCB handler TCI of NY may be looking for a new home to the north. The T-U quotes “local officials” as saying the company, whose Ghent facility was destroyed in an inferno last August, is working with the Rensselaer County IDA—and has scoped locations in East Greenbush, Rensselaer and Schodack:
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/TCI-mulls-new-plant-4464861.php
Many Columbia County residents would heave a big sigh of relief, much as Ulster residents did in the 1980s, when fires at TCI’s original Newburgh plant drove the company up here.