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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."
FULL STORY: Elizabeth Township nixes zoning variance for power plant
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