Environmental Protection director Ken Bowman said the Department had issued an air plan approval for Wellington Development allowing construction of the Greene Energy Resource Recovery Project in Cumberland Township in Greene County.
The waste-coal power plant, designed to use circulating fluidised bed (CFB) combustion technology to reduce air emissions, will be built on a former LTV Steel site along the Monongahela River.
“This project will use more than 3.1 million tons of waste coal annually from the Nemacolin, Isabella, Daisytown and Hawkins coal refuse piles in Washington, Fayette and Greene counties, helping to reclaim surrounding lands scarred by past mining practices and clean up acid mine drainage leaching into the Monongahela River - one of the most pressing environmental problem affecting water quality in south-west Pennsylvania,” Bowman said.
