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Friday, April 18, 2014
Debate begins as energy committee forms
Springfield will have a new energy committee shortly.
http://rutlandherald.com/article/20140418/NEWS02/704189955
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Appears the boobs formulating the mission statement ignored what should be the key point.
ReplyDelete"To make the most inexpensive power available to industrial customers to encourage job creation and reutilization of vacant mill buildings."
None of us that operate manufacturing operations here give a rat's ass where that power comes from. It's pure economics when it comes to competing for contracts and making payroll.
George:
ReplyDeleteJust can the BioMass idea already. We don't want it. It has been rejected by an educated committee who made a wise decision. You are suppose to put on the ole thinkin cap and present some worthy alternatives.
Yeah George, the School Board studied and rejected biomass for heating the schools...oh wait, well the Public Service Board studied the biomass plant and rejected it because... oh wait that was because of the access road to the Industrial Park... well NOSAG decided it wouldn't be good for the economy, so we should just listen to the NIMBYS who are fighting biomass, wind, and even solar in some places, we need to stick with good old fuel oil from the Middle East and fracked natural gas from the midwest...jobs from logging and pellet manufacturing aren't jobs, they are....
DeleteNo let's not can it. Let's rub NoSag's nose in what they have really accomplished, which is to brand themselves as NIMBYs with little or no grasp of the technical issues.
DeleteI had the pleasure of attending a dinner held a the Sullivan County nursing home in honor of volunteers. The director gave a short speech and began talking about a new biomass plant. I wondered what was coming next; was he going to explain how they had crusaded against it in order to preserve the health of the residents? No of course not. He proudly announced that it had gone online. Savings to the budget are estimated at $300k/year. Ashes will be used to fertilize nearby farms.
Just a taste of what Springfield missed out on so that the NoSag NIMBYs wouldn't have to endure a few more trucks going in and out of the North Springfield Industrial Park.
Hemp oil is clean and very easy to grow. You can get 6 barrels of oil per acre, can be grown in all 50 states. We can put corn oil back in the food supply. We can save all that oil underground for when we may need it instead of risking our water supplies. You can make clothing, paper and oil from the plant and that's why we don't have it today. Big oil doesn't like that idea at all, they would not be able to make money on farmers GROWING OIL, very easy to harvest and process..........Tom C Donovan
DeleteYou got to hand it to NOSAG though, they did an excellent job of terrorizing the rest of Springfield into silence regarding their support of the project. Biomass involves a lot of things besides what was proposed in North Springfield, and it would be silly to say to the farmers and woodland owners that we won't consider biomass in the future. Its like saying that the working landscape movement is a big joke. There are a lot of people working those woodlands and fields, local people, not oil and natural gas czars who do not live around here.
DeleteWait until they have to live with the horror of pleading animals looking at them on the roadways, before they're butchered.
ReplyDeleteSurprise, surprise, another committee in Springfield. And this, an "energy" committee, of all things. Naturally, Springfield has an abundance of energy experts in town, all of whom were just clamoring for a position on the board, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason that the following adage was coined long ago: A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Springfield can consider itself lucky if this committee comes close to producing a design for a camel. It's more than likely however that all that will be produced is yet another pink elephant for a town that should be red with embarrassment at its governmental ineptitude.
A committee formed to make sure NOSAG or any similar group ever gets in the way of the elite again who will keep lining their pockets at the expense of the minions. Ever notice how when the voters defeat something on the ballot involving money that it reappears again and again on the ballot until it is passed? This committee's job is to insure the passage of future ridiculous energy projects at the expense of the tax payers and the local residents' health.
ReplyDeleteActually, its been my observation over the years that committees are generally used in Springfield to kill projects by getting them off the School or Town's agenda. It's generally called death by Committee. It goes like this, issure erupts, issue assigned to a committee, committee studies issue, while committee studies issue in private public forgets about issue, committee makes report on issue, public body ignores or buries report, issue goes away until it erupts again, same process repeated.
DeleteActually it's called "avoiding responsibility" by the elected and appointed office holders. Refer it to a committee, creating the illusion of action whilst in actuality washing their hands of the matter. Unfortunately, in this case they'll have to wash with cold water because the town won't have the energy (policy) to make hot water!
DeleteJust another example of how the Town of Springfield WASTES ITS ENERGY on trivial pursuits of a worldly nature while matters of vital significance to the town's basic integrity go unaddressed.
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