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Date Posted: 10:24:01 04/11/01 Wed
Author: Dennis Williams
Subject: Re: Power Plant Blues
In reply to: Karen 's message, "Re: Power Plant Blues" on 20:47:37 04/10/01 Tue

Maybe it's semantics, but there is one (not a smoke) stack that will rise 160 to 170 feet. There are also cooling towers that will be less than one-third that height (I forget the exact height) and nowhere near as visible as the stack because of the topography.

I'm sorry you don't feel any sense of relief, but my reason for bringing this up was to point out another (of many) misstatements on the part of a minority of people who oppose this.

Now here's another misstatement: That the steam blows were "unknown" until recently. Steam blows are very specifically addressed in and controlled by the special permit. The special permit was written and approved more then two years ago -- at the same time as everything else. So how does this qualify as "only recently known"?

The "surprises to come" amd the "only recent known" seem to be on your part. It is mildly insulting to be told that we "need to address the environmental issues!" because you and a few others just realized what they were. People who paid attention when we had the special-permit hearings know that 90% of the discussion was about all manner of environmental issues and that they were analyzed and discussed in excruciating detail. Just what do you suppose we were doing all those nights? All of those proceedings are a matter of official record; we killed a few trees to document it. Why not pick up a transcript if you're so concerned?

By the way, when do we get to discuss all the lives we, as a society, will save if we ever manage to get the Dirty Dozen and other coal- and oil-burning plants off line? Does this not matter to you at all?

You and a couple of others seem to have yourselves all wrapped around your own axles over this, based on a lot of misperception borne out of the fact that you weren't around when we handled this. So let me offer again: Contact the Selectmen's office and ask to be put on a meeting agenda. Then we can all communicate back and forth and a) allay your concerns, b) surface other issues, and/or c) be proved wrong (based on good facts and analysis) and try to stop the thing.

If you're concerned about being on cable television, I'm sure we could arrange a separate workshop that, while still complying with the Open Meeting Law, would not have to be televised. (Although my own preference would be to televise it so that the entire discussion is available to more people, I can understand that televising it would intimidate some people and stifle discussion.)

And let me also say again, if you're really bent on stopping this thing, IMHO, you're going about it the wrong way so far. If all you want to do is vent, well, that's your right, I suppose, but your venting won't change my or other people's minds. Just one person's advice.

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Re: Power Plant Blues -- Mary, 08:08:47 04/12/01 Thu
- Re: Power Plant Blues -- Laura G., 22:53:43 04/12/01 Thu