Cranbury Joins South Brunswick In Opposing Power Plant In Woodbridge

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — Officials in Cranbury passed a resolution earlier this week, opposing the proposed power plant in Woodbridge. This comes almost a month after South Brunswick did the same.

Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) has proposed to build a new 630-megawatt gas-fired power plant in the Keasbey section of Woodbridge, which is already overburdened with pollution. More: 3 New NJ Power Plants Coming, 2 Will Definitely Use Natural Gas

Back in 2021, Cranbury’s Environmental Commission and Board of Health came out against the plant. More: South Brunswick Passes Resolution Opposing Power Plant In Woodbridge

“We are concerned that this new plant will add another major source of air pollution to Middlesex County, much of which has been designated as ‘overburdened communities’ under New Jersey’s environmental justice law, which requires that the environmental and public health impacts of this type of facility must be evaluated when reviewing permit applications,” Laura Zurfluh, Chair of the Cranbury Township Board of Health said.

Resolutions opposing the power plant have also been passed in Edison, Highland Park, Hoboken, Perth Amboy, Franklin, Sayreville and Rahway.

Earlier this week, residents and environmental activists asked the East Brunswick Council to join other townships in opposing the power plant.

The Somerset County Commissioners and the Highland Park Board of Education also adopted resolutions opposing the project.

“Dumping millions more tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere would be a terrible move in the wrong direction,” Charlie Kratovil, Central Jersey Organizer at Food & Water Watch, said in a statement.

“It’s encouraging to see towns all over New Jersey taking a stand and calling on the governor to live up to his rhetoric on the climate crisis.”

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