LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

News Watch Home

Fairhaven Board of Health’s closed-door meeting questioned 

Credit:  ARIEL WITTENBERG July 23, 2013 | www.southcoasttoday.com ~~

FAIRHAVEN – The Board of Health met in an emergency executive session this afternoon to discuss Fairhaven’s two wind turbines.

Members of the press present, including the Standard-Times, questioned the reason for a closed door meeting.

Board Chairman Peter DeTerra said the executive session meeting was justified because it dealt with contract negotiations and “potential litigation” between the town and turbine developer, Fairhaven LLC.

The Fairhaven Board of Health is not a party to the Board of Selectman’s contract with the wind turbine developer.

The state Attorney General’s online Open Meeting Law Guide explicitly states that “discussions relating to potential litigation” do not constitute a legal purpose for executive session.

The Guide further states that, “That a person is represented by counsel and supports a position adverse to the public body’s does not by itself mean that litigation is imminently threatened or likely.”

Reached by phone, Fairhaven Wind’s Gordon Deane confirmed that there is no pending litigation between the two parties “at this point” but that there is “certainly a potential” for litigation.

Town Counsel Thomas Crotty, who telephoned into the closed door meeting, could not immediately be reached for comment by the Standard-Times.

Source:  ARIEL WITTENBERG July 23, 2013 | www.southcoasttoday.com

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 Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon