From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Sat, 5 Jun 2010 04:45:25 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Renewabale energy and mining brownfields |
Limbo land: Brownfields for green energy by Cally Carswell High Country News June 7, 2010There's gotta be a better place: That's become the mantra of environmentalists protesting wind and solar projects on undeveloped public lands. And it's the argument behind a movement to develop already-sullied places instead -- decommissioned landfills, abandoned mines and the like. The idea isn't new. The Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed it in some form since at least 2003, estimating that more than 11,000 contaminated sites nationwide are suitable. A handful of built projects prove that brownfields can turn green, but the concept has yet to be broadly implemented. "There was no driver," says Blair Loftis, alternative and renewable energy director for Kleinfelder, a San Diego-based engineering firm. Kleinfelder hopes to fill that void, styling itself as a matchmaker between mining and solar companies. And as conflicts intensify over planting wind turbines in sage grouse habitat and fragmenting the Mojave Desert with sprawling solar farms, the notion is gaining steam. ... For the entire article, see http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.10/limbo-land -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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