Comments on: The Latest News about the Salem Harbor Power Plant http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/ 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/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-532 Frank Haggerty Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:54:32 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-532 New Bedford , Massachusetts has plans to use its harbor as the New England Wind Turbine Site of the Atlantic offshore wind power . Let's clean the harbor first and show renewable energy will clean the toxic old power plants and they won't be left to flow into the environment ! Follow up to 2005 news story ;Cannon Street Power Plant ,New Bedford As the Legislature entered the home stretch of the 1996 session, local lawmakers made a final push to win state aid to remove a toxic power plant. The House in 1996 passed a plan that contains $300,000 to study the possibility of converting the toxic abandoned New Bedford power plant. The cleanup documents for the power plant are said to weigh around twenty pounds. http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-22-05/a01lo272.htm "In the longer term, the company plans to clean up the former power plant, a process that would begin next summer and cost about $3 million, Mr. Therriault said. The plant is contaminated with asbestos, lead paint and bird droppings; a section of the pier is contaminated with coal tar and heavy metals. In its press release announcing the sale, Sprague wrote that it is "Contractually committed to the remediation of the former power plant." NStar has maintained that it wanted to be completely cleared of liability for the cost of cleanup, and that was a major obstacle in the city's ultimately failed negotiations to purchase the property. " This story appeared on Page A1 of The Standard-Times on December 22, 2005. http://kgurbanadvisors.com/cannon_street_station/press_clips.htm "At one point during a meeting with The Standard-Times, Stern said his firm estimated "land acquisition and cleanup costs" at more than $50 million. At another, he said the cleanup would cost "an order of magnitude more than $6 million," which translates to about $60 million. "The site contains every type of contamination except nuclear," he said. "There's fuel oil, tar, coal tar, cyanide, lead paint, asbestos, guano (excrement from seabirds, seals and bats), asbestos and mold, and the mold is the scary part because the organics are very dangerous. "We know what's there in the ground and in the building," Stern said. "We spent six figures to produce a book that's literally 20 pounds. "We could get the building cleaned up in nine months," he said." TOXINS STILL HERE DEC 7 2010 New Bedford , Massachusetts has plans to use its harbor as the New England Wind Turbine Site of the Atlantic offshore wind power . Let’s clean the harbor first and show renewable energy will clean the toxic old power plants and they won’t be left to flow into the environment !

Follow up to 2005 news story ;Cannon Street Power Plant ,New Bedford

As the Legislature entered the home stretch of the 1996 session, local lawmakers made a final push to win state aid to remove a toxic power plant. The House in 1996 passed a plan that contains $300,000 to study the possibility of converting the toxic abandoned New Bedford power plant.

The cleanup documents for the power plant are said to weigh around twenty pounds.

http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-22-05/a01lo272.htm

“In the longer term, the company plans to clean up the former power plant, a process that would begin next summer and cost about $3 million, Mr. Therriault said. The plant is contaminated with asbestos, lead paint and bird droppings; a section of the pier is contaminated with coal tar and heavy metals.

In its press release announcing the sale, Sprague wrote that it is “Contractually committed to the remediation of the former power plant.” NStar has maintained that it wanted to be completely cleared of liability for the cost of cleanup, and that was a major obstacle in the city’s ultimately failed negotiations to purchase the property. ”

This story appeared on Page A1 of The Standard-Times on December 22, 2005.

http://kgurbanadvisors.com/cannon_street_station/press_clips.htm

“At one point during a meeting with The Standard-Times, Stern said his firm estimated “land acquisition and cleanup costs” at more than $50 million. At another, he said the cleanup would cost “an order of magnitude more than $6 million,” which translates to about $60 million.

“The site contains every type of contamination except nuclear,” he said. “There’s fuel oil, tar, coal tar, cyanide, lead paint, asbestos, guano (excrement from seabirds, seals and bats), asbestos and mold, and the mold is the scary part because the organics are very dangerous.

“We know what’s there in the ground and in the building,” Stern said. “We spent six figures to produce a book that’s literally 20 pounds.

“We could get the building cleaned up in nine months,” he said.”
TOXINS STILL HERE DEC 7 2010

]]> By: Brad B http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-417 Brad B Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:28:10 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-417 Good ridance. That goes for anyone who got their drinking water from Wenham Lake, after if was found that all of the fly ash from Vitale's property had been improperly stored and leaked into the lake creating a 3 foot bed of toxic fly ash at the bottom of the lake being used for drinking water. Good ridance. That goes for anyone who got their drinking water from Wenham Lake, after if was found that all of the fly ash from Vitale’s property had been improperly stored and leaked into the lake creating a 3 foot bed of toxic fly ash at the bottom of the lake being used for drinking water.

]]> By: Fitz Z http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-416 Fitz Z Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:19:29 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-416 This Plant should of been closed down three years ago after it took three Lives !! RED SIMPSON will Keep it going BA for Local 326 Make sure you make the bed Red when your done sleeping with Management..... This Plant should of been closed down three years ago after it took three Lives !! RED SIMPSON will Keep it going BA for Local 326 Make sure you make the bed Red when your done sleeping with Management…..

]]> By: ErinF http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-415 ErinF Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:51:04 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-415 They probably can't make $ and meet the emissions standards. They only blow smoke a small part of the time...so good job putting on the pressure it is working!! They probably can’t make $ and meet the emissions standards. They only blow smoke a small part of the time…so good job putting on the pressure it is working!!

]]> By: Lynn Nadeau http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-414 Lynn Nadeau Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:21:08 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-414 Q: And what did put the nails in the coffin? Answers: Public pressure? Unlikely. Regulations? Well, they cost $. Plant deterioration? 60 years of hard work takes its toll on infrastructure. So I guess the answer is the corporate bottom line -too much $ out, not enough in. Q: And what did put the nails in the coffin?
Answers: Public pressure? Unlikely. Regulations? Well, they cost $. Plant deterioration? 60 years of hard work takes its toll on infrastructure. So I guess the answer is the corporate bottom line -too much $ out, not enough in.

]]> By: Stop the Plant Now http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/the-latest-news-about-the-salem-harbor-power-plant/#comment-413 Stop the Plant Now Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:34:14 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=1980#comment-413 Let's put the final nails in this coffin. 2014? This plant should be closed before 2012. Outraged Let’s put the final nails in this coffin. 2014? This plant should be closed before 2012.
Outraged

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