[CPEO-BIF] Waterbury, Connecticut waste to energy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waterbury brownfield may become waste-to-energy plant

BY ANDREW LARSON
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (CT)
May 7, 2009

WATERBURY — A stagnant brownfield in the South End may soon become a 
garbage-processing hub if state and city agencies approve a 
Massachusetts company's plan to build a power plant at the site of the 
former Anamet factory.

Chestnut Hill BioEnergy has signed an agreement to buy the 17-acre 
property and convert it into the country's largest food-waste-to-energy 
plant, capable of producing electricity for 10,000 homes.

Company representatives, during a site tour Tuesday, said the project 
would put to good use a relic from the city's manufacturing past. They 
say the technology will help reduce the strain on landfills while 
creating energy from a renewable source.


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for the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/05/07/news/413224.txt

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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
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