Falls 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."

Read more:
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/falls-planning-board-to-weigh-zoning-change-to-spur-love-canal-solar-farm/article_cd3369d8-4f95-11ef-b7a6-a3ac949758de.html

#Brownfields #NewYorkState
#SolarSundays #SolarSunday
#RenewablesNow #Solar

Authorities discuss solar farm project at Love Canal

by Daniel Telvock
7/15/2024

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – "#NYSERDA and the City of #NiagaraFalls are in preliminary discussions for a large-scale solar farm on 16 acres of #LoveCanal, the location of one of the country’s worst environmental disasters."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/authorities-discuss-solar-farm-project-at-love-canal/ar-BB1q2liF

#Brownfields #NewYorkState #SolarSundays #SolarSunday #RenewablesNow #Solar

Toxic Waste in Your Backyard: What Would You Do?

https://peertube.biz/videos/watch/3ef7ed69-0208-4502-86f4-801d8ec9ee5c

#LoveCanal

That's not a name I expected to see again, 45 years later. You couldn't pay me to live there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/nyregion/love-canal-toxic-homes.html