At 240 Megawatts, the Data Center Power Plant will be the 5th largest power source in the State of Delaware.
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November 3, 2013 at 7:30 am
Nancy Willing
Our group finally got our hands on the application the Data Centers LLC submitted to the DEDO Infrastructure Committee in April. We passed it to city officials and it caused a huge reaction! Here is what I will be writing about once the News Journal does their story out on it. Haven’t checked the paper yet this morning:
Newark’s Planning Director, Maureen Feeney Roser, rejected Duffield Associate’s request on Friday for the zoning confirmation DNREC needs to process the Data Centers’ Air Permit application for their site on the UD STAR campus. State law says that permits like these need to have the zoning confirmed.
Duffield’s request was denied by the city based on discrepancies between TDC’s public statements and those found in the DEDO application for Infrastructure funds back in April of this year.
The Planning Director writes that she had just found out about the terms in the application although she and the city manager were at the DEDO committee’s April meeting and had written the public sponsorship letter necessary for the project to be considered (all of that unknown to Council at the time).
And so does that mean that neither of Newark’s top city administrators had bothered to read the Data Centers’ application for infrastructure funds they’d endorsed?
Amy Roe, on behalf of our group, the Residents Against the Power Plant, retained the application document through FOIA from DEDO and immediately submitted it to the city on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 high-lighting the gross discrepancies. The city passed the application along to special counsel Max Walton who evidently told them, yes, it blew a huge hole into the zoning justification that the power plant was only an accessory use.
I also see on the DEDO application that TDC is using the local firm, Drinker, Biddle and Reath, as counsel. If only their clients hadn’t LIED so much to the city’s planning dept, planning commission, council, public, etc. etc. The DEDO application and this letter should be up online at the No Newark Power Plant website by now.
Also, News Journal reporter, Melissa Nann Burke, has had the DEDO application for over a month but said she didn’t understand the implications. It is fortunate that our group got it in to the city the nick of time.
November 3, 2013 at 7:33 am
Nancy Willing
oops, did I say LIE? I meant ‘mischaracterized’. Just sayin’