[CPEO-BIF] Windmills on former steel mill

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

An Old Steel Mill Retools to Produce Clean Energy

LACKAWANNA, N.Y., May 21 - Empty grain elevators and dormant railroad tracks
line the Buffalo River to the east and Lake Erie to the west, interspersed
with empty fields overgrown with gnarled shrubbery. Test wells that monitor
decades of buried industrial waste dot the landscape. A passenger ship, rust
overtaking its aqua paint, sits beside a decaying mill.

Windmills at Steel Winds dot the site of the old Bethlehem Steel mill in
Lackawanna, N.Y. The wind farm is the largest to be built in a city.

The road from Buffalo to this city to the south offers a stark reminder of
the region's faded past as a hub of industry and shipping.

Yet in the past few months, a different sight has emerged on the 2.2-mile
shoreline above a labyrinth of pipes, blackened buildings and crumbling coke
ovens that was once home to a behemoth Bethlehem Steel plant: eight gleaming
white windmills with 153-foot blades slowly turning in the wind off Lake
Erie, on a former Superfund site where iron and steel slag and other
industrial waste were dumped during 80 years of production.

For the entire article, see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/nyregion/22wind.html?hp


Bob Hersh
CPEO


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