2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] ReVenture Park, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
 
ReVenture Park wins NC brownfield approval


Susan Stabley
Charlotte Business Journal (NC)
March 12, 2013

N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory signed off on a brownfield agreement this week that allows for the development of the long-delayed "eco-industrial" ReVenture Park.

ReVenture Park was announced in 2009 as a future home of a 50- to 100- megawatt biomass power plant that would anchor the redevelopment of a 667-acre Superfund site. The project then faced a series of delays in obtaining funding, air-quality permits and a waste pact with Mecklenburg County.

ReVenture's plans to turn Mecklenburg County's trash into electricity ultimately fell apart.

But by last summer, ReVenture developer Tom McKittrick said plans for a biomass plant were back on - this time as a a 1.4-megawatt plant using technology developed by a Locust company.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/going_green/2013/03/ reventure-park-wins-state-brownfield.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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