[CPEO-BIF] "Rules will allow solar power facilities on former landfills in the Pinelands, " New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rules will allow solar power facilities on former landfills in the  
Pinelands

By SARAH WATSON and LEE PROCIDA
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
October 15, 2011

The state Pinelands Commission proposed new rules Friday that would  
allow for the placement of solar-generating sites as primary uses in  
protected Pinelands areas.
The move opens up possibilities for municipalities to install solar  
panels on old landfills, brownfields, and other remediated areas that  
have sat unused for years or decades.

In April, Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill into law - originally  
sponsored by state Sen. Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic - that permits the new  
approvals. It gave the commission another six months to change its  
regulations to match.

A large-scale project proposed in Ocean Township, Ocean County, was  
one of the first such projects proposed, and stakeholders in that  
plan partly drove the process for the new law.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/new_jersey/rules-will- 
allow-solar-power-facilities-on-former-landfills-in/article_490a504a- 
f779-11e0-9b67-001cc4c002e0.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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