After reading that Competitive Power Ventures will no longer place 2 million gallons of diesel on top of our aquifer, it appears that CPV and their supporters are still missing the point. The majority of the residents in Walpole don't want the Power Plant, period.
CPV and Mr. Brady seem to ignore the fact that it was not CPV’s spokesman who failed at the forum to put the information into “common speak...terms we understand.” It is CPV as a whole that failed to comprehend that they were talking to an educated, intelligent, scientifically well-informed residency.
The people of Walpole are endowed with enough common sense to know that you should not put noxious chemicals in tanks above your sole source of drinking water or have a constant output of steam-filled pollutants over the heads of an entire town with no effect.
Even at this juncture, Mr. Grunbeck cannot present a study that addresses the issue of the particulates that we will breathe for the next 20 years, nor does Mr. Grunbeck want to take any responsibility for the effects of spills that will undoubtedly happen over time as the ammonia and other chemicals are transferred from trucks to tanks. Mr. Grunbeck and CPV appear to have a deplorable lack of imagination when it comes to planning for the very real mishaps that can occur.
For these and many other reasons, the answer to locating a power plant in Walpole is still a resounding no!
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