[CPEO-BIF] "Pittsburg [California]: City Council approves solar power project on former landfill site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pittsburg: City Council approves solar power project on former  
landfill site

By Eve Mitchell
Contra Costa Times (CA)
April 17, 2013

PITTSBURG -- City Council members approved a proposal for a 20- 
megawatt solar facility that would sell electricity to Pacific Gas &  
Electric, one week after the owner of a recycling center raised  
environmental questions about the project.

Garaventa Enterprises has since withdrawn its opposition. In a one- 
page letter submitted to the council about 2½ hours before Monday  
night's meeting, it said it now supports the project.

The 3-0 vote clears the way for Columbia Solar Energy, a subsidiary  
of New York-based LS Power, to build the facility on a leased 115- 
acre grassland parcel owned by USS-Posco Industries.

Garaventa Enterprises, which operates the Mount Diablo Recycling  
Center on Loveridge Road next to the project site and provides  
garbage service in several East County cities, raised concerns about  
the project just two hours before the April 8 council meeting began.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-times/ci_23032705/ 
pittsburg-city-council-approves-solar-power-project-former


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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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