Tag: connecticut

  • Plainfield, Connecticut Biomass Facility Changes Hands Again

    - by Bri­an Dowl­ing, March 25, 2015, Hart­ford Courant Lei­dos Inc. is sell­ing its Plain­field wood-fired pow­er plant to Green­leaf Pow­er, a Sacra­men­to com­pa­ny that is buy­ing bio­mass plants across North America. Green­leaf Pow­er announced Wednes­day it has agreed to buy the 37.5‑megawatt pow­er plant in a deal it expects to close lat­er this year. The com­pa­ny…

  • Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT

    - by Bill Cum­mings, Decem­ber 28, 2014, CT Post The dis­cov­ery of PCBs and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants at Green­wich High School two years ago is only part of a mosa­ic of can­cer-caus­ing tox­i­cs that have cropped up at var­i­ous sites around one of the nation’s wealth­i­est, most exclu­sive communities. Pol­lu­tants have now been con­firmed at three oth­er loca­tions in Green­wich,…

  • Connecticut Buys Fake “Clean” Energy from New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator

    [Oth­er than ignor­ing all health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of bio­mass incin­er­a­tion, this arti­cle false­ly claims that the Burgess BioPow­er incin­er­a­tor in New Hamp­shire can oper­ate at 90% effi­cien­cy, while in real­i­ty bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tors oper­ate at 20–25% effi­cien­cy. ‑Ed.] - by Geof­frey Craig and Derek Sands, Platts Con­necti­cut’s Pub­lic Util­i­ties Reg­u­la­to­ry Author­i­ty approved on Tues­day a New…