In the wake of its official acquisition of Salem Harbor Power Station, Footprint pens a letter to Salem.
The attached letter was submitted by Foortprint. The company officially acquired Salem Harbor Power Station last week.
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For or against — was your air conditioner running this weekend?
The most prominent landmark in Salem is the 500-foot tall smoke stack at the Salem Harbor Power Station. That has been true since before I was born. As a small boy, three smaller stacks dominated the skyline. They created an optical illusion as you came up Derby Street. Each one in turn looked taller even though each stood 300 feet tall. My main memory of the power plant and its various stacks is of the dark clouds of smoke and steam that they belched on cold winter mornings. Those emissions would oftentimes, depending on the wind direction, result in layers of black soot on the windowsills at home. My mother would open the windows to a chilling blast of winter air so she could clean the soot from the sills. Salem and its surrounding …
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5:31 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
watch out snookie and family is moving to 24 fort avenue in her new spacious waterfront property more ›
Pending regulatory approvals, Footprint Power will acquire Salem Harbor Power Station, remediate the site and build a natural gas plant.
A New Jersey company has signed an agreement with Dominion to take control of Salem Harbor Power Station, remediate the site and build a natural gas plant. The announcement from Footprint Power LLC came Friday, according to a press release. The coal-fired Salem Harbor Power Station owned by Virginia based Dominion is currently slated to close by June 1, 2014. Two units were reportedly retired in December 2011. Footprint's new "state-of-the-art natural-gas-fired power plant" will be built on one third of the 63-acre site and could start as a power supplier by 2016, according to the press release. The City has been working on its vision for the rest of the site, and has presented study plans in public meetings. The Salem Harbor Power Station…
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12:23 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
THE POWER PLANT HAS BEEN USING SALEM HARBOR FOR COOLING WATER FOR 60 YEARS WITH NO REAL ILL EFFECTS. more ›
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7:19 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
The one fly on the pie ...is that this plant is betting on Cape Wind to be built . What happens if it is not built ? Wind Power is taking negitive hits around the world for it's track record . Oh how we all hope to see this plant gone . more ›