[CPEO-BIF] More Lake Erie windmills, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spinning forward for energy

Six new wind turbines will provide more clean energy for the region,  
and pump more dollars into local coffers

By Jay Tokasz
Buffalo News (NY)
July 30, 2011

Six additional giant windmills will start sprouting from a brownfield  
along Lake Erie, possibly within the next few weeks, and they are  
expected to produce even more renewable energy from the toxic former  
Bethlehem Steel property by early 2012.

The new turbines will join the eight windmills that dramatically  
altered vistas of the Lake Erie shoreline when they began operating  
in Lackawanna in 2007.

Site preparation started last week for the new windmills, which will  
be identical to the other turbines, each one capable of cranking out  
2.5 megawatts per hour -- enough electricity to power up to 700  
households.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/erie-county/ 
article507006.ece

--

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