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Brockton Clean Energy Supporters
Mark Swimmer
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I am a retired boilermaker. For 31 years, I’ve worked in and out of power plants all over New England. As a matter of fact, I have no problem with this project… Power plants I have lived in all my life. Getting back to some of the propaganda going on and what they think the power plant will do, Mr. Byers down there. All this propaganda from the business next to the power plant. I understand there are ten or 12 companies down there paying a third of what this power plant intends to pay to Brockton for taxes. We need jobs around here. We need business. We need power to run those plants. So I strictly support this power plant which gives a good life to my family.”
Willie Dykes
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Willie Dykes
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I’ve worked in the liquefied natural gas industries for 18 years. I am an engineer on power plants, and I just want to go on record and say this is positive for the City. That with today’s technology, it’s a win-win situation. Everything will be done within the utmost of guidelines. And, as engineers, we try to operate and do things to the best of our ability, and to be better than required for, or criteria calls for. I just wish everybody would go visit the power plant in Dighton where my brother works, to see what has been done and what the impact in the community is, and how it affected the area where they live. You owe it to yourselves. I am in favor of this proposal.”
Mark Chartier
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Mark Chartier
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I have been a steam engineer for 24 years. In the past 24 years the technology has grown so much. I strongly endorse the type of cutting edge, combined-cycle technology this plant is going to have. We need this power. These people don’t understand it. Your supply is going to run out… I am not hooked up to anyone in this room. I am a steam engineer. I am not a union guy. I work in a small hospital in Newton. I am here as a resident, because after I read in the paper the other day, I just couldn’t believe how biased it was. It’s wrong.”
Tom Ross
Tom Ross
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“My family has been in Brockton for five generations. My great, great grandfather’s farm was on Pine Avenue along the banks of the Salisbury River. My family has been involved in the development and brokerage of industrial commercial real estate for many years. Every day of my working life I deal with the needs of industry. I have seen the success that the Myles Standish Industrial Park has brought to the City of Taunton. Brockton is competing with Taunton. They are competing with a lot of other South Shore communities. I spent 12 years in the offshore oil drilling industry. I am familiar with power plants. I graduated from Mass Maritime, and many of my classmates work in these power plants. The best reason for my supporting this power plant is I know that once the power plant is built, we are going to be able to close some of these tremendously destructive and polluting power plants like the ones that they have got now.”
Mark Donahue
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Mark Donahue
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I have been a resident of this city for 41 years. My father has been a resident of this city for 41 years, also. We both walk four miles around the park every day. We don’t want to take anyone’s word for anything. I went to the clean energy plant in Boston. I went to the one in New Hampshire. I talked to some of the residents. Nobody seemed unhappy with it. All I’m saying is, do your research. Go talk to some of the residents of the same type of plants before you make a decision. I’m for the plant.”
Mark Speizer
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Mark Speizer
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I am in complete support of the power plant. The report shows that the demand for energy is rising, and the brownouts will be a way of life here by the year 2010. If something is not done, then all we are going to be living with is rolling brownouts. I have been in Southern California in the summertime. You know, rolling blackouts and stuff like that, that would be a way of life if we don’t do something about that now. This project is a good one that uses state-of-the-art technology and also uses recycled water. I know I don’t want to run out of electricity or fresh water in my lifetime or in my children’s or grandchildren’s lifetimes. Something has to be done to make sure that this doesn’t happen, and this power plant is a good way to make that happen.”
Tom Finch
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Tom Finch
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I just want to say that I am a hundred percent for this power plant. I’m tired of everybody screaming with no facts about the dangers of this power plant. There are power plants all over this country. When have you heard of an accident? I see no problem whatsoever. I am a hundred percent for it.”
Chris Mellman
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I would like to say that I am in favor of the power plant. I am very glad I have sat in on the open meeting that has been provided for us. As a 19-year city resident, I believe that the company that is proposing this has a presented a good case. It is going to be built in an industrial area where it should be. It is going to provide good jobs at good wages, and I would like the plant to be put in the city, because I know the grid could use the power. And I am in favor of it and would like to go on record for that.”
Steve Wyman
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Chris Mellman
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“I would like to say that I am in favor of the power plant. I am very glad I have sat in on the open meeting that has been provided for us. As a 19-year city resident, I believe that the company that is proposing this has a presented a good case. It is going to be built in an industrial area where it should be. It is going to provide good jobs at good wages, and I would like the plant to be put in the city, because I know the grid could use the power. And I am in favor of it and would like to go on record for that.”
Steve Wyman
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“Like many other residents here tonight, and many who are not here, I’m very concerned about the need for more cops on the streets, more firefighters available and more resources for our schools. Each year we see more and more difficulty, and we can’t afford to turn our backs on this project. This creates much needed revenue. And also, according to OSHA, there are no, and never have been, any health safety issues associated with this type of facility.”
Ben Regan
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
Ben Regan
Public Hearing, September 27, 2007
“Having lived in Ward 4 for over 55 years, and having seen the many changes that have taken place therein, especially as they relate to Commercial and Industrial growth along with substantial growth in large tract housing nearby, I cannot help but give full support to the largest, state-of-the-art, single tax revenue producing project ever considered for the City of Brockton, and to be built in that part of the City in which I am most familiar and concerned.”
