[CPEO-BIF] Canton, Massachusetts solar landfill project

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfield in Massachusetts to generate money by producing solar power

EcoSeed
June 28, 2012

A 15-acre brownfield outside the town of Canton in Massachusetts is  
getting a second lease in life as a solar power project that will  
generate around $16.3 million in revenue.

The projects such as the one in Canton effectively revitalize  
abandoned, underused industrial areas and convert them into  
economically productive, clean power generating sites.

The former Canton landfill lay idle for two decades before Boston- 
based renewable energy project developer Southern Sky Renewable  
Energy L.L.C.'s proposal to repurpose the area into a solar power  
generation site was picked up by the town.

"Hundreds of closed landfills across the state are sitting idle when  
they can, in fact, be turned into major sources of revenue. For  
communities like Canton that are in dire need of tangible economic  
growth, solar power arrays provide a major opportunity," said Francis  
X. McMahon, managing director of Southern Sky.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ecoseed.org/business/us/15011-brownfield-in-massachusetts- 
to-generate-money-by-producing-solar-power

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

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