[CPEO-BIF] ReVenture Park, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...

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
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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