By Scott Baughman
Published: June 14,2011
ReVenture Park’s plan to burn Mecklenburg County’s trash to produce electricity has gone up in flames. In a city that’s trying to diversify its economy from one focused mostly on banking, the loss of a project that would have generated energy in a new way could be seen as setback. To some, it is. To [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: May 9,2011
Kevin Madrzykowski, general manager for Adams Outdoor Advertising in Charlotte, says he hears it from his clients daily: complaints about trees growing in front of billboards. The foliage gone wild makes it hard for motorists to see the advertisements, which companies can pay tens of thousands of dollars for a month. When his clients call, [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: April 1,2011
In 2005, the state Division of Water Quality slapped Karla Knotts and her husband’s Pineville-based real estate brokerage company, Knotts-Greylock, with a $57,816 fine. The basis for the fine: A tire rut in their Greylock subdivision development in Matthews. In the eyes of the DWQ, the rut was a temporary stream that helped the development [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: March 16,2011
Saying the review process for the ReVenture park energy plant “has been compromised by local political and financial interests,” the Mecklenburg County Waste Management Advisory Board wants an internationally known waste-management firm to study the proposed project. On Tuesday, the WMAB said the review process, which has involved local businesspeople and residents with ties to [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 15,2011
The Mecklenburg County Waste Management Advisory Board today adopted the county commissioners’ conflict of interest policy after conflicts of interest concerns arose regarding the ReVenture Park plant. County attorney Marvin Bethune told the WMAB to continue weighing the pros and cons of the proposed plant, which would convert the county’s garbage to fuel to power homes using a [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 15,2011
It’s a question of conflicts of interest. On the one hand, some are wondering why two people employed by Calor Energy, a consultant for developers of a proposed plant that would burn Mecklenburg County’s trash, are allowed to sit on panels tasked with vetting the project. On the other hand, the county’s Waste Management Advisory [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 13,2011
The Central Piedmont Sierra Club is asking Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to notify parents, faculty and staff of plans to build a plant that would burn Mecklenburg County trash. In a letter Friday to school officials, the Sierra Club, a critic of the plant being proposed by Charlotte-based Forsite Development as part of the ReVenture Park project, [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 9,2011
In a revelation that is angering environmentalists, the state is not required to hold public hearings before it awards an air-quality permit for ReVenture Park’s controversial waste-to-energy plant proposed for western Mecklenburg County. That doesn’t mean there won’t be any hearings before the permit is awarded. Officials say it’s up to the director of the [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 21,2010
Next month, Charlotte-based Forsite Development will answer a question that has been on the minds of many. On Dec. 2, the company is expected to announce the technology that will be used at ReVenture Park to convert waste to electricity, according to discussion Friday during a meeting of the Mecklenburg County ReVenture Advisory Council. The Mecklenburg County [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 5,2010
The ReVenture Park Advisory Council met today to hear from a North Carolina businessman involved in research and development of the type of technology that is likely to be used in the proposed 30-megawatt renewable-energy biomass power plant planned for western Mecklenburg County. Richard Tucker of Locust, N.C., based-Tucker Engineering discussed pyrolysis gasification, a process being discussed for [...]
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