[CPEO-BIF] Solar park at OxyChem, Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is there a bright future for OxyChem site?

By Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
September 24, 2008

LOWER POTTSGROVE - Now that the federal government has decided how the 
final cleanup of the Occidental Chemical site off Armand Hammer 
Boulevard will be conducted, the question of what comes next for the 
site is becoming relevant.

One idea being floated is a solar power park.

"Something like that would be a good thing. For that matter, why not 
windmills, too?" said Township Manager Rod Hawthorne, who noted that he 
was not speaking for the township commissioners on the subject.

Calls to a representative for Glenn Springs Holdings, which is managing 
the 257-acre site for OxyChem, were not immediately returned Tuesday.

The solar park idea has been proposed by the Alliance for a Clean 
Environment, which has been a watchdog over the cleanup of the federal 
Superfund site. The idea is to cover portions of the site with 
photovoltaic panels that generate clean, renewable electricity.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20134877&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

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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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