BURRILLVILLE – The Conservation Law Foundation says the natural gas-fired power plant proposed here would hinder Rhode Island’s greenhouse-gas reduction goals, according to ecoRI News.
Established in 2014, the Resilient Rhode Island Act requires the state to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.
“The proposed power plant, because it would be fired by a fossil fuel, would emit atmospheric carbon and would consequently have an impact on Rhode Island and global climate,” wrote CLF attorneys Jerry Elmer and Max Greene in a letter to the state Energy Facility Siting Board.
Chicago-based Invenergy LLC submitted plans for the nearly 1,000-megawatt Clear River Energy Center to the siting board on Oct. 29. A public hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12 at the Public Utilities Commission office in Warwick.
Invenergy says the proposed plant would be the most efficient in New England. •
