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Mayor Hardwick's China policy!
The following is an edited versi^f of a ^^^ press release from the Village ofFreepbrt: -^ Freeport Mayor Andrew Hardwick, along with leaders of the New York State Senate and Assembly, hosted members of a special delegation of businessmen and engineers from Beijing, China on Friday, _ cember 18, at Village Hall. ^/7 "\ The visitors, led by Zefeng Chen, chief «^^Jexecutive officer and lead economist af i Zhongde Waste Technology AG, included
<_ other high-level company officials and
I John Wong; fouiider and president of the New York in China Center in Beijing and . ^^ the Asian American Business Development ; ^J Center in Manhattan, which sponsors the ; ^^^VEmpire State's "Invest in New York" trade ; '^^ssions to China.
Zhongde is a manufacturer of- 21.st-;'. Century incinerators that convert soUd ' .waste into electric and thermal energy. The
Fighting liunger
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company, which is headquartered .in Hamburg, Germany, and has its prodiiction base in Fuzhou, China, is considering building a waste-to-energy plant in Freeport at a projected cost of $460 to $550 million. It would be the first of a generation of high-end, "WtE conversion technology" in the eastern United States and on Long Island.
Using the latest WtE technology, the proposed plant would have the capacity to treat up to 3,200 tons of solid waste and generate about 650 to 850 kilowatts of locally controlled electricity per day for Freeport and for resale to the Long Island Power Authority and the New York grid.
The process Zhongde uses also could
provide thermal energy for manufacturing
•and heating village-owned .facilities and
commercial businesses in the
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BRINGING BUSINESS TO FREEPORT: A delegation of Chinese businessman visited Freeport on Friday to discuss the possibility of building a plant in Freeport that would treat solid waste and generate energy. Above are: Eric Chun, Kevin Fu, Wangjiuhua, Chen Zefeng and John Wang. With the Chinese delegation is Mayor. Andrew • Hardwick, third from right and state Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, center. Not pictured is state Senator John
Sampson of Brooklyn. Leader photo •
Baldwin's Stieehan • receives EPA award
page 5
Ex-Columbus
principal dies
page 10
Mayor Hardwick's
budget statement
page 15
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-12-24 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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