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By Blair Loftis
When searching for a renewable asset site, solar and wind farm developers
generally focus on land control and land availability—features that active and inactive mines have in abundance. You just have to know
where to look. Your best bet likely is going to be land assets associated with
the mining properties that have little or no intrinsic value, such as tailings
impoundments and waste rock heaps.
There are approximately 1,000 active metal mines in the United States that have
at least one tailings impoundment—and often several grouped together in cells—each as large as 640 acres in size. According to EPA estimates, there are
several thousand tailings impoundments (defined as ground rock and process
effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant) associated with active
non-coal mining and tens of thousands of inactive abandoned impoundments. An
added benefit is that much of mine land is privately owned land, therefore not subject to conventional federal
oversight from organizations such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
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Meredith Udoibok Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Assistant director of business and community division, Dept. of Employ
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Timothy Murray Boston, Mass.
Lieutenant Governor, state of Massachusetts
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Jason Seyler Helena, Mont.
Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
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