Plan for Central NJ power plant dropped after years of community opposition
Community activists are celebrating after a power company dropped its plans to build a 657 megawatt gas-powered power plant next to one it already operates in an industrialized Central Jersey community.
Regulatory applications from CPV estimated the power plant — which had been planned for the former site of an abandoned chemical plant —. According to the Sierra Club’s New Jersey chapter, the proposed facility would have emitted ozone-causing agents and other pollutants Smith credited local activists for mounting enough opposition to delay plans by years, to the point where CPV determined the project was no longer viable.Keasbey is considered an “overburdened community” under the environmental justice law, which went into effect this year after regulations were finalized.
In a statement this week, New Jersey Sierra Club Chapter Director Anjuli Ramos Busot described the withdrawn plan as “the clean energy transition happening in real time.”
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