2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:30:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Waterbury, Connecticut waste to energy
 
Waterbury brownfield may become waste-to-energy plant

BY ANDREW LARSON
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (CT)
May 7, 2009

WATERBURY — A stagnant brownfield in the South End may soon become a garbage-processing hub if state and city agencies approve a Massachusetts company's plan to build a power plant at the site of the former Anamet factory.

Chestnut Hill BioEnergy has signed an agreement to buy the 17-acre property and convert it into the country's largest food-waste-to-energy plant, capable of producing electricity for 10,000 homes.

Company representatives, during a site tour Tuesday, said the project would put to good use a relic from the city's manufacturing past. They say the technology will help reduce the strain on landfills while creating energy from a renewable source.


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for the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/05/07/news/413224.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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