Pittsburgh Suburb Rejects Zoning Change for Proposed Power Plant

A zoning controversy could continue into a legal appeal.

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June 18, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


"Elizabeth Township [Pennsylvania] zoning officials on Tuesday said they would not allow a Chicago-based energy company to move forward with its proposal to build a natural gas-fired power plant on a patch of land zoned for residences," reports Daniel Moore.

Invenergy, the company behind the proposal, first proposed the power plant last fall. "The proposal quickly became embroiled in a zoning debate this spring as the company sought a variance for the proposed site, which is part of a former industrial landfill contaminated by a misplacement of coal ash and demolition waste in the 1980s," according to Moore. Residents preferred to leave the "600-acre property along the Youghiogheny River — of which the plant would take up 21 acres — to remain residential or undeveloped." 

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