draft plan
From:
Lynn Benander
Date:
2007 May 31 04:31 UTC
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Dear David,
The process for editing the draft plan is for the planners to take all
our input and produce a revised plan. Catherine Miller from the
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission let us know about the edits she's
planning to make at this point. The comment session closes June 15,
and Catherine Miller and Bill Labich (Franklin Regional Council of
Governments) will prepare a final draft after that. The plan, I
believe, will then go to each of our 69 towns for review and,
hopefully, adoption.
What you've said, I believe, describes what I hear to be a general
consensus. I'd extend the emissions concerns beyond the stack to
emissions from truck traffic required for plant operations.
For both wind and biomass, citizens are also concerned about the site
selection (Will there be a negative impact on communities or the
natural environment?), and about ownership structures (Will it be
owned by a large corporation from out of the region or will there be
come local ownership?).
For almost every project that's proposed, there will be a group of
people who support it and a group of people who oppose it. I'd love to
find a way for the plan to define our common ground and find wise ways
to significantly reduce our energy consumption and identify what kinds
of clean generation resources we do want.
Thank you for your thoughts on how to define a place to begin this
conversation.
Sincerely,
Lynn
Quoting David Greenberg <david.greenberg3@gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
> I'm not sure what the process is for editing the draft plan, but it
> seems to me that editing is required to make clear that in fact we
> all do support 'clean' energy sources and, at the very least, the
> technologies involved in a very large biomass plant must be
> thoroughly investigated from the perspective of what is being burned
> and what is coming out of the stack before we declare it as a 'clean'
> energy source. I would hope we are all in agreement about this.
> Perhaps someone could suggest a way to edit the document to reflect
> this.
>
> David
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