Comments on: This time, it’s permanent: Somerset Station power plant shuts down for good http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/this-time-its-permanent-somerset-station-power-plant-shuts-down-for-good/ 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/this-time-its-permanent-somerset-station-power-plant-shuts-down-for-good/#comment-722 Frank Haggerty Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:29:27 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=3173#comment-722 We need the abandoned toxic Cannon Street Power Plant in New Bedford cleaned up before a renewable energy ocean port is built next door to the plant . The House in 1996 passed a plan that contained $300,000 to study the possibility of converting the toxic abandoned New Bedford power plant. The Cannon Street clean up documents already exist and are said to weigh twenty pounds. Most private or nonprofit groups are unable to build any project on the site of Commonwealth Electric's closed Cannon Street power station which contains fuel oil, tar, coal tar, cyanide, lead paint, asbestos, guano, asbestos, mold and heavy metals. No one wants to have to pay for the clean up of the site. The CLF should leverge stimulus funds to clean up this plant .How can 600 million in stimulus funds go to new renewable energy projects while leaving a toxic abandoned power plant in New Bedford . This power plant is a hugh carbon foot print in the New Bedford area and should be refered to as a carbon boot ! We need the abandoned toxic Cannon Street Power Plant in New Bedford cleaned up before a renewable energy ocean port is built next door to the plant .

The House in 1996 passed a plan that contained $300,000 to study the possibility of converting the toxic abandoned New Bedford power plant. The Cannon Street clean up documents already exist and are said to weigh twenty pounds.

Most private or nonprofit groups are unable to build any project on the site of Commonwealth Electric’s closed Cannon Street power station which contains fuel oil, tar, coal tar, cyanide, lead paint, asbestos, guano, asbestos, mold and heavy metals. No one wants to have to pay for the clean up of the site.

The CLF should leverge stimulus funds to clean up this plant .How can 600 million in stimulus funds go to new renewable energy projects while leaving a toxic abandoned power plant in New Bedford . This power plant is a hugh carbon foot print in the New Bedford area and should be refered to as a carbon boot !

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