http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130301/NEWS02/703019885
Wood-fired plan still lacking power contract
By Susan Smallheer
Staff Writer | March 01,2013
Rutland Herald
SPRINGFIELD — Dan Ingold, renewable energy goals, state, North Springfield, power purchase agreement, project, Asa Hopkins, contribute to overall renewable energy, Public Service, biomass
Build it and they will come.
ReplyDeleteThat most certainly did not deserve an article, it isn't that the plant doesn't make a contribution -- it is just that they haven't finalized their agreement with the distributing power company. Opponents are really grasping for straws now.
DeleteYes. The plant can't and won't operate without tax payer subsidies to make it profitable for a select few. It appears the profiteers are the ones really grasping at straws and not their opponents who finally figured out the scam. Right town shill?
DeleteWhere do you propose your power comes from? Granola eating,longhaired people riding bikes powering generators all while singing Koom By yah?
DeleteThe government ineptocrats and their senseless acronyms.
ReplyDelete"SPEED stands for Sustainable Priced Energy Development Program."
Nooooo. Actually, that would be SPEDP, which is nonsensical. How many meetings did these useless idiots hold before finally deciding to call it what it's not -- SPEED?
Over 50 trucks a day on the roads in N. Springfield? That's just not right.
ReplyDeleteWAAAAA....... When the shops,Idlenot Dairy, and Ben and Jerrys were in full operation they had hundreds of trucks coming and going a day. Did anyone complain then?? I think not. Time to move forward with some new development and help with the opportunity for desperately needed jobs.
DeleteYou also are forgetting that Wiggens Concrete was driving VERY heavy trucks thru town six days a week also.Plus 8 loads of sand a day when their pit went sour. What about when Fellows was operating? How quickly some forget.
DeleteNIMBY=Not In My Back Yard
You forget there were multiple ways to the industrail park--now the traffic is being routed down one small residential road (County Road). Main Street is not used, nor any of the backroads--every single truck through County Road--where homes can reach out and touch the passing trucks, cars have to completely pull off the road to allow the trucks to turn, their fumes and soot completely color the homes on that street. Should one street bear the full burden?
DeleteSince the shop closures we have been educated to the nasty pollutants they created. We're paying the price for the heavy metals and water pollution of the last generation.
ReplyDeleteAnd that price would be what exactly? Certainly not the epidemic of stupidity that has engulfed the town's governance the past 30 years!
DeleteTry selling your house. Can your children find lucrative employment in town? No. That's the price we are paying.
DeleteHeavy metals and water pollution have nothing to do with you being unable to sell yourself. A pathetically weak local economy that features either low paying private sector jobs or mediocre public sector jobs and high tax rates are the reason you can't find anyone interested in buying into the Springfield market. It's an economic desert!
DeleteWell we didn't close the shops because of the pollution, they closed the shops because of globalization. If we are going to have manufacturing or industry of any kind we are going to have increased road traffic. Obviously, if we want to actually have industry in the industrial park in North Springfield, we are going to have traffic. We might as well get the problems with the roads worked out now.
Delete"Globalization" was the term invented to mask the switch of focus from satisfying the customer to satisfying the stockholder. They closed the shops because Textron and Goldman Industrial group thought they could teach anyone to operate machine tools at minimum wage.
DeleteIf a Purchaser's Tax had been in operation at the time, Textron would have lost out to a local group bidding for the same properties.
If we had understood vulture capitalism back then, it might not have happened.
Who would have guessed that when Bob Dylan sang, "The Times They Are A-changing" that he was singing the Vulture Capitalist Manifesto?
Yeah, can't sell the house. We are trying.
ReplyDeletere: "They closed the shops because Textron and Goldman Industrial group thought they could teach anyone to operate machine tools at minimum wage."
ReplyDeleteAs usual Chuck, you couldn't be more wrong.
lets see. big capitol fund=surplus large pension fund=surplus. see chuck they came stole and left us in their wake. thats why the fed is paying the pensions.
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