Environmentalists win; company drops plans for $1B gas-fired generating plant in Pa.

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I guess they didn't want to ugly up the abandoned rail yard.

Yes, we need to keep our coal strippings and abandoned buildings of rustbelt PA pristine for future generations.

Yeah, but Socky's business would probably go through the roof! (That's a small restaurant right across the street.)

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Decision to discontinue plans for $1B gas-fired power plant ‘killed us,’ mayor of Pa. town says

The mayor of Renovo has a question for the environmentalists who blocked the construction of a $1 billion natural-gas fired electric generating plant in his borough.

Mayor Gene Bruno wants to know what plans the Clean Air Council, Penn Future and the Center for Biological Diversity have for the economic growth of Renovo.

Their opposition opposition to the Renovo Energy project caused the Bechtel Corp. of Reston, Va., to announce plans for it have been discontinued.




https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/0...outputType=amp