[CPEO-BIF] Freetown, Massachusetts solar landfil proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar panels could be installed at unused landfill

By Jeffrey D. Wagner
Somerset Herald News (MA)
December 14, 2010

FREETOWN - What was once a place for trash could soon become an 
environmental treasure.

Town authorities Tuesday will meet with a company that plans to install 
solar panels at the landfill, located in the Howland Road transfer station.

Interim Town Administrator John Healey said it will be the second 
meeting the town has had with a company about installing solar panels at 
the landfill.

Healey said doing so will generate revenue because  the town will lease 
the site to the company. The company will then generate electricity and 
sell it to local utility providers.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerset/news/x493342814/Solar-panels-could-be-installed-at-unused-landfill

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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