The Select Board voted unanimously last night to approve a special permit for the construction of two wind turbines on town land off Chase Road. Information on the project can be found here on the town website. I will post the entire findings and conditions to this blog ...
... when I receive the final wording from the Town Counsel.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Select Board approves special permit for wind turbines
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Congratulations and thanks to those who worked so hard on this project. Although there are more obstacles to overcome, the outcome is no longer in doubt.
1:37 P.M.
Come on now, did you really think this wind turbine project was doomed to fail? The Chase Road land location is not on any political radar screen. Long ago, the political townies decided that the Russells Mills Road/Chase Road land location was suitable for a town dump. This dump, located South of the Dartmouth highway garages is capped and no longer used for dumping, but in it's hay day, the dump was a place where political hopefuls would wait and meet the town voters. They (political hopefuls) would be helping the voters throw trash into the burning dump. This truly highlights the meaning of a political hot spot. This contaminated land dump is fermenting with plenty of methane gas. On a North West wind flow you will smell the odor of raw gas. Just sit at the corner of Russells Mills Road and Chase Road. Due to the contaminated waste at this landfill, the herring stopped their annual track up the Slocum River and into the Paskamanset River.
Find someone to run for selectman and get out the vote.
To Ray,
The herring stopped running when the river was dammed and the herring ladder was too big. The waste at the landfill has nothing to do with it. I seriously doubt you can smell any methane any where near the old dump site but maybe if your drinking a lot of beer and eating cheap food while blogging you do!
Focus on a real issue
All 5 Select Board members voted for this project. Not one opposed it.
The facts were presented and the decision was made to grant the permit. This project is a win win for Dartmouth.
I hope other towns and cities nearby will come on board with clean energy.
Wind power has been used, as we all should know, for centuries to benefit mankind. Be it windmills or wind turbines makes no difference to me. They are part of the landscape globally. These NIMBY's need to get over it. In a few years, after some solid cost savings information has been calculated, 99% of the town will be glad we went in this direction.
"The care of human life and happiness,not their destruction,is the first and only legitimate object of good government." -Jefferson
"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm,men who will not bend their politics to their purses,nor pursue measures by which they may profit,and then profit by their measures."
-Jefferson
Why isn't Ray quoting this? This sounds like a Ray post. Isn't Jefferson his idol? How convenient to omit that which does not suit you, particularly when we are inundated with his quotes and historical references all the time.
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