Comments on: CLF Intervenes in Proposed NU/NSTAR Merger http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/clf-intervenes-in-proposed-nunstar-merger/ For a thriving New England Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frank Haggerty http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/clf-intervenes-in-proposed-nunstar-merger/#comment-731 Frank Haggerty Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:51:58 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=3279#comment-731 The Conservation Law foundation needs to get involved with the clean up of the toxic abandoned Cannon Street Power Plant in New Bedford . Where was the CLF when the plant was sold . At the present time it's not clear who owns the power plant and if the owners have done their due diligence to remove the toxins from the plant !It has been known since 1996 that the power plant is the most toxic power plant in a marine environment .The clean up documents weigh twenty pounds and if this was a shovel ready project why wasn't some of the 600 million in stimulus funds pledged to the ocean wind turbine project used to put people to work in New Bedford cleaning the plant ! The CLF backs the ocean wind turbine port in New Bedford being built on a brownfield site owned by the state of Massachusetts near Blackmer Street . The ocean wind turbine port is being built next door to the power plant in the largest superfund site in the country ! When the EPA was approached last week at a meeting in about the ocean wind turbine port New Bedford here is the answer : "While EPA is involved in part of the approval process it is a separate project, and involves a number of different people from multiple state and federal agencies than those who work on both the Superfund cleanup of New Bedford Harbor, and the demolition of the Aerovox Mill. I want to assure you that while we are unable to address your concerns about the future re-use of the South Terminal area during the monthly Superfund meetings, it is a project that will be given due attention and community input, but during a separate public process. I will certainly forward to you the public notice that comes my way to announce the date of the South Terminal public meeting. There, your questions about the increased traffic in the harbor can be better answered by the experts working on that permitting process. In the meantime, if you have any additional questions about EPA's Brownfields program or the Blackmer Street Site, I encourage you to contact Joe Ferrari of EPA's Brownfields Program. " The Conservation Law foundation needs to get involved with the clean up of the toxic abandoned Cannon Street Power Plant in New Bedford . Where was the CLF when the plant was sold . At the present time it’s not clear who owns the power plant and if the owners have done their due diligence to remove the toxins from the plant !It has been known since 1996 that the power plant is the most toxic power plant in a marine environment .The clean up documents weigh twenty pounds and if this was a shovel ready project why wasn’t some of the 600 million in stimulus funds pledged to the ocean wind turbine project used to put people to work in New Bedford cleaning the plant !

The CLF backs the ocean wind turbine port in New Bedford being built on a brownfield site owned by the state of Massachusetts near Blackmer Street . The ocean wind turbine port is being built next door to the power plant in the largest superfund site in the country !

When the EPA was approached last week at a meeting in about the ocean wind turbine port New Bedford here is the answer :

“While EPA is involved in part of the approval process it is a separate project, and involves a number of different people from multiple state and federal agencies than those who work on both the Superfund cleanup of New Bedford Harbor, and the demolition of the Aerovox Mill. I want to assure you that while we are unable to address your concerns about the future re-use of the South Terminal area during the monthly Superfund meetings, it is a project that will be given due attention and community input, but during a separate public process.

I will certainly forward to you the public notice that comes my way to announce the date of the South Terminal public meeting. There, your questions about the increased traffic in the harbor can be better answered by the experts working on that permitting process. In the meantime, if you have any additional questions about EPA’s Brownfields program or the Blackmer Street Site, I encourage you to contact Joe Ferrari of EPA’s Brownfields Program. “

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