[CPEO-BIF] Boise, Idaho plans solar brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Solar power plant to be built near the Boise Airport

by Ty Brennan
KTVB News 7 (Boise, ID)
June 2, 2010

BOISE -- Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is talking about making the area 
cleaner and greener.

In his State of the City address Wednesday, Bieter made a major 
announcement --- a $45 million solar power plant is slated to be built 
west of the Boise Airport.

Bieter says in just a few months the overflow long term parking lot 
could be transformed into a solar power plant.

During the first phase there will be large solar panels placed on top of 
what are basically carports.

Once the first phase is complete they'll move onto the second phase, 
which will be built just a few yards from the parking lot on top of the 
old city landfill.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ktvb.com/home/New-solar-power-plant-will-come-to-Boise-95415494.html

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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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