Newark residents and environmental activists are calling on New Jersey Governor Murphy to delay plans by a wastewater treatment facility to build a natural gas power plant in an over-polluted corner of the city.
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission wants to build a gas power plant to create a back-up power source during emergencies. January 11th, 2022The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission wants to build a gas power plant to create a back-up power source during emergencies. January 11th, 2022Newark residents and environmental activists are calling on New Jersey Gov.
But environmental and civil rights groups said that hasn’t been enough to allay their concerns about the power plant. They’re urging Murphy to intervene and, at least, delay the vote this week. The proposed power plant would be located near a four-square-mile residential neighborhood known as the Ironbound, home to 50,000 residents.
. The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission is the fifth largest wastewater treatment facility in the country. It serves 48 towns in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Union and Essex counties in the densely-populated northeast corner of the state.Pankaj Lal, director of Montclair State University’s Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center
“There are costs to all these steps, but this is a regional facility that has its greatest impacts on a single neighborhood — the region owes that neighborhood for PVSC to be the best neighbor it can be, both now and evolving to better conditions in the future,” he wrote in an email.