The Peru Gazette

Just down the hill, a developer is looking to reopen a pair of mines that closed in the 1970s to create a new hydroelectricity project The $300 million project, in effect a giant water battery, would use massive subterranean passages to create electricity by pumping water up and down. Known as the Mineville Energy Storage Project, this could provide energy free of fossil fuels to parts of the North Country. It’s also a rare economic development opportunity for this corner of the state. But federal regula

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