[CPEO-BIF] Hackensack Gas Works site, New Jersey goes solar

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public Service Electric & Gas breaks ground on brownfield solar farm,  
pitches $883 million in new solar to state

By Eliot Caroom
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
July 31, 2012


The plot of land overlooking the Hackensack River has had many  
incarnations since it was home to the Hackensack Gas Works, which  
converted coal to gas in the 1860s.

It was used by Public Service Electric & Gas for gas storage in the  
1900s, and in the last decade the utility had to excavate 300,000  
tons of contaminated soil to clean it up.

Now the property gets a new lease on life after Ralph Izzo, head of  
PSEG and Gov. Chris Christie wielded shiny shovels yesterday to break  
ground for a solar farm.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/07/ 
public_service_electric_gas_br.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>
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