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  1. 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:
    niagara-gazette.com/news/local

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

  2. 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:
    msn.com/en-us/news/us/authorit

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