Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY – New Life for Controversial W’Burg Waterfront Power Plant.

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    Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY – A power company renewed its request this month to locate a large power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront on a critical lot along the Bushwick Inlet where the city plans to build a 28-acre park.

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    TransGas Energy Systems, which has been entrenched in a bitter battle with the city for years over the 8-acre lot, backed its case with recent calls by Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the company’s biggest rival, the Bloomberg Administration, to reduce greenhouse emissions while increasing the state’s energy supply.

    Meanwhile, the Department of Parks and Recreation continues to forge ahead on its plan for the park, the centerpiece of a 2-mile waterfront esplanade that is being built and maintained, according to city standards, by private developers who own waterfront property.

    “We hope that the condemnation process [for the TransGas site] will move this summer,” said Parks Assistant Commissioner Joshua Laird.

    “I think people think we’re dead, but we’re not even slightly dead. We’re very determined, and we feel confident because there are no negatives to the project whatsoever, except in the minds of some ignorant people,” said TransGas Brooklyn site manager James Kellogg. [brooklyn eagle]


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