[CPEO-BIF] "Repowering" New York State's legacy power plants

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

LaValle Strengthens Brownfield Remediation Bill to Help Repower  
Legacy Plants

Tax credits inserted into State Senate budget bill to garner interest  
in repowering.


By Lon Cohen
Port Jefferson Patch (NY)
March 16, 2012

State Senator Kenneth LaValle, R-Port Jefferson, has put language  
into the Senate version of this year’s proposed New York State budget  
to create incentives for repowering of Port Jefferson's electrical  
plant in an attempt to make legislation that he introduced last year  
even stronger, according to a spokesperson for the senator.

Last year’s bill provided tax breaks and credits through the State’s  
brownfield clean-up program to garner corporate interest in  
repowering the old and ineffective LIPA power plant in Port Jefferson.

...

For the entire article, see
http://portjefferson.patch.com/articles/lavalle-strengthens- 
brownfield-remediation-bill-to-help-repower-legacy-plants

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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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