DoomsdaysCWFalls Planning Board to weigh zoning change to spur #LoveCanal #SolarFarm
by RICK PFEIFFER | Jul 31, 2024
"The #NiagaraFalls Planning Board is expected to decide in September whether to recommend a zoning change that would allow the site of the worst #EnvironmentalDisaster involving #ChemicalWastes in U.S. history to be transformed into a large-scale, eco-friendly, #solar #RenewableEnergy project.
"Just three residents from the Love Canal neighborhood appeared at a board hearing Wednesday night on a request by city officials and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (#NYSERDA) to change the zoning of 16 acres of city-owned land, south of Colvin Boulevard, north of the LaSalle Expressway and between 93rd and 95th streets from R1-A (Single Family Residential) to OS (Open Space). The change would allow for the land that was once #HookerChemicalCompany’s Love Canal landfill to be reclaimed and developed into the Vincent Welch Build-Ready Solar project.
"That land was also once the location of the Griffin Housing Development [YIKES!] as well as the Love Canal."
#Brownfields #NewYorkState
#SolarSundays #SolarSunday
#RenewablesNow #Solar