[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENHANCED USE: Watervliet Arsenal (NY) bio-mass plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer: Plant overdue
Senator hits red tape that's holding up power plant at Watervliet  
Arsenal

By Larry Rulison
Albany Times-Union (NY)
January 9, 2012

WATERVLIET - U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer came to the gates of Watervliet  
Arsenal Monday demanding that the Army cut through the red tape and  
pave the way for a new power plant at the site.

"It's Washington bureaucracy at its worst," Schumer said.

Three years ago, the nonprofit Arsenal Business & Technology  
Partnership was awarded the right to redevelop 65 acres at the site  
through the Army's long-term lease program. One of the major pieces  
of that plan is construction of a new biomass-fed power plant that  
would also generate steam for the Army's cannon and weapons  
manufacturing operations.

Partnership officials say the cogeneration plant is critical to  
support new high-tech tenants for the site - especially a data  
processing center that would draw a huge amount of power. The  
partnership has already attracted dozens of tenants employing about  
300 people to a small number of available buildings. The additional  
land it was awarded would allow it to become even more creative in  
its marketing efforts.
 ...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Schumer-Plant- 
overdue-2452177.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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