[CPEO-BIF] Aurora, Colorado solar landfill plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Colorado: Aurora brownfield eyed for renewable energy

by Bob Berwyn
Summit Voice (CO)
November 5, 2011

SUMMIT COUNTY - A 146-acre parcel in Aurora could become an urban  
renewable energy park under a federal initiative that aims to  
redevelop Superfund sites, brownfields, and former landfill or mining  
sites across the country.

The Aurora parcel, on the northeast corner of 6th Ave. and Tower  
Road, has been identified as a potential site as part of the EPA and  
the U.S. Department of Energy’s RE-Powering America's Land Initiative.

"This is another example of the value of NREL’s research, development  
and technological power," said Sen. Michael Bennet." It is an asset  
to Colorado and the country, and it’s great to see the EPA and NREL  
working together to try to make use of property that would otherwise  
remain undeveloped and unproductive," he said . "I hope the  
feasibility study will determine this is a good location for solar  
energy development, which would put this abandoned site to productive  
use and create new clean energy jobs here in Colorado."

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For the entire article, see
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2011/11/05/colorado-aurora-brownfield- 
eyed-for-renewable-energy-project/

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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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