NYT Article on WTC Memorial Design Finalists, 2003

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Mayor^Urges Moving Power Plant Site Out of Williamsburg Continued From Page Bl ing the Greenpoint site, and would that could be used to heat buildings. dered cleanup efforts. So far, about respond to the mayor’s suggestion by Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff 1.5 million gallons of petroleum prod­ Oct. 27. State officials are evaluating said city officials had looked at more ucts have been recovered, state envi­ radio show yesterday, the mayor the $1 billlOri project, and are expect­ than a dozen possible sites in Brook­ ronmental officials said. said the 9.8-acre site in Greenpoint ed to make a decision on it by June lyn, and seriously reviewed three Barry Wood, a spokesman for was better suited for a power plant 2004. others before settling on the one In Exxon Mobil, said the property had because it could provide access to City officials have projected that Greenpoint, which is owned by the not been on the market and declined gas pipelines and the power grid they will need an additional 3,000 Exxon Mobil Corporation. to put a price on it. He said the without disrupting residential neigh­ megawatts of electricity by 2008 to He said the city had retained a company was willing to consider sell­ borhoods. meet growing energy demands. Pro­ firm with experience in developing ing it, but several issues would have “It’s already industrial,” he said, posed projects, or those already un­ power plants, to ensure that the site “It doesn’t hurt anybody, and given der construction, would cover about to be addressed, like how the cleanup woiild meet engineering, design, con­ of the site would continue. yOu have to build It someplace, this is 2,500 megawatts of that. Including a struction and environmental require­ a perfect compromise, or perfect so­ 1,000-mcgaWatt plant in Astoria, ments for a pdwer plant. He added Matthew Buras, a spokesman for lution, to a difficult problem that we Queens, arid a transmission line that the city was not planning at this the state Department of Environ­ always face of where do you put across the Hudson River that would time to subsidize the project with mental Conservation, Which is over­ needed facilities that nobody wants deliver 600 megawatts. taxpayer dollars. seeing the cleanup, said that while tn their backyard?” The proposed plant would gener­ The property was once used as a state law did not prevent Exxon Mo­ A spokesman for the developer of ate enough electricity to light about storage, blending and distribution bil from selling the property, the new the plant, TransGas Energy Sys­ one million homes, and would bum site. But by the late 197O’s, large owner would be legally responsible tems, said that its engineering and relatively clean natural gas and re­ amounts of petroleum had seeped for making sure that the cleanup environmental experts were revlew- cycle its waste heat to make steam into the ground, requiring state-or- continued. (

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