Floral Park mayor seeks power plant at Belmont
Photo credit: Amanda Voisard | Floral Park Mayor Thomas J. Tweedy has proposed a power station at Belmont Racetrack to serve surrounding communities. (Sept. 5, 2012)
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Floral Park Mayor Tom Tweedy has a solution for the thousands of residents of his village (and three surrounding ones) who are fed up with high LIPA rates: generate their own power.
Under a proposal the village is seeking to include in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Energy Highway plan, it would use Belmont Park racetrack as the site for a new 30-megawatt natural gas-fueled plant. The facility would...
