| Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005. |
Bourne mass mailings may prompt Town Meeting attendance
Credit: Bourne Courier, www.wickedlocal.com 8 May 2011 ~~
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Translate: FROM English | TO English
How do you attract voters to a Bourne Town Meeting in mid-May? Well, mass mailing may be one answer, along with proposing a controversial warrant article.
Concerned Citizens for Responsible Energy sent out a mass mailing last week as did David Peterson of Cape Cod Aggregates and Tudor Ingersoll of New Generation Wind, whose propose a seven-turbine wind farm off Route 25 and Scenic Highway.
The citizens’ mailing urges voters to attend the Monday night special session to “ensure the responsible siting of wind turbines.” It asks for a “yes” vote on Article 1, the only item on the warrant.
“The proposed wind turbine bylaw amendment will allow appropriately-sized turbines in Bourne,” the mailing notes.
Ingersoll, meanwhile, says the citizens’ effort “will completely prevent installation of any turbines with significant generating capacity to offset town-wide fossil fuel dependence. It will deny Bourne any prospect of a future with a meaningful contribution from clean wind-powered energy generation.”
It was unclear last week, however, how much latitude Moderator Robert Parady will allow voters who want to discuss a revised turbine-siting bylaw as opposed to comments about the New Generation proposal, which is not before the planning board.
It was also unclear how may revisions Parady would accept to the citizens’ bylaw amendment request on town meeting floor.
This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.
The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.
| Wind Watch relies entirely on User Contributions |
 (via Stripe) |
 (via Paypal) |
Share:
[ Short URL: https://wind-watch.org/news/?p=48649 ]
