2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:02:00 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Wind turbine proposed for Hunter, New York landfill
 
At former dump, energy is blowin' in the wind


By ARIEL ZANGLA
Kingston Daily Freeman (NY)
July 26, 2009

HUNTER - The town supervisor hopes a wind turbine tower will be installed at the municipality's closed landfill on Hylan Road by the beginning of October - the first step in possibly creating a wind farm there.

Dennis Lucas said the town is working with the Greene County Industrial Development Agency and a Massachusetts manufacturer called Mass Energy to locate a residential wind turbine at the old dump. He said the wind tower would be placed at no cost to the town and would be a trial project to understand and produce a three-way agreement between the municipality, the manufacturer and Industrial Development Agency.

If the agreement works out, it could lead to the town using more of the old landfill property for a wind farm, Lucas said on Friday. He said there are more than 80 additional acres on the landfill site that the town hopes to put to use for the collection of wind energy.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/07/26/news/doc4a6bd7bccf9dc488102777.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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