[CPEO-BIF] Proposed solar farm, Beacon Falls, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Town hopes to turn brownfield green

by Luke Marshall
Naugatuck Citizens News (CT)
September 11, 2014

BEACON FALLS - Town and state officials are working to bring green  
energy to Beacon Falls.

During the Board of Selectmen's meeting Sept. 8, First Selectman  
Christopher Bielik said the town is looking at a brownfield on  
Blackberry Hill Road as a potential location for a solar farm.

The site, which served as the town’s landfill until the 1980s, would  
be converted to produce energy for municipal use through a state grant.

"It ties into a state project for accessing brownfield properties and  
being able to convert them into some kind of actual useable  
function," Bielik said. "The fact is we have a brownfield in town  
that is probably a candidate for something similar to this."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mycitizensnews.com/news/2014/09/town-hopes-to-turn- 
brownfield-green/

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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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