On May 26th a meeting will be hosted by Winchester Pipeline Awareness at Town Hall. The intent is to help answer questions the public still has. The Kinder Morgan open house seemed to just cause more confusion and more unanswered questions. The meeting will be held between 7-9pm.
There will also be a presentation put on by Kinder Morgan on June 2nd. It will be like the meetings that have been held in Richmond & Fitzwilliam, if anyone attended one of those. Preference to asking questions to KM reps will be affected landowners, abutters, residents and non-residents if time allows. The meeting will be held from 7-8:30pm.
Please attend both meetings. Your support and voices matter. This is a very important issue for all of us , not only just those affected immediately by the construction of the pipeline through their properties; but the town itself and all citizen's of Winchester. This project will have great environmental impact and poses numerous threats to public safety as well as allowing an out of state company to seize private property for profit.
More information regarding the fight to keep Kinder Morgan out of Southern New Hampshire and our backyards
https://www.facebook.com/nopipelineinRindge
https://www.facebook.com/groups/winchesterpipelineawareness
21 comments:
And our great BOS elected by town voters are not going to attend. Again what is the excuse for refusing to be educated and responsible for something that will have so serious an impact on this town??????
Why bother being educated and confusing themselves with facts? They already have their opinions and likely have made their decisions. Oh wait, though...can they do that with "not enough information yet"? Too bad there isn't someplace that they could go to for more information. If only there were a resource available to them for that....
We all know that thre are people at town hall that don't act in the best interest of the town and are there for one reason and one reason only. As the saying goes "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" in Winchester it's a greased palm.
Won't matter much what certain people say or do, especially when the other towns are banding together to keep them out. Perhaps it's best for all to see just how those we have in charge here shirk their duties and responsibilities to the citizens in town and hopefully it will reflect at the polls again as it did last year.
The way I hear it the BOS and the Planning Board are both relying on the Conservation Commission to do all the work. They are the ones doing all the hard research and meeting a lot. Even met with the BOS offering help and information so for the BOS to say they don't have enough information is a croc. The pipeline group website has a wealth of info too. Our BOS need to be ousted. Love the tongue in cheek previous comment!!!!!!
You do have to admit Theresa has temerity spouting off she needs to gather more information before making an informed decision. My guess is she's weighing all of her options before she votes yes. Why else beat around the bush knowing that the people in town do not want it, it poses serious threats and it's a damn company from out of state, that got thrown out of Massachusetts with a safety track record that looks like a peice of swiss cheese. Yup, need more time, for what?
Wonder what they will say when it comes through and property values fall and people lose homes, the aquifer is contaminated and we have no water, our roads are trashed with their equipment, our air is polluted by the compressor station in Northfield and better yet when we have an explosion and no equipment to contain it. Help BOS!!!!! Hell no we don't want to get involved because we don't have enough information. Guess none of them were there when the town voted NO on three warrant articles on the pipeline.
Theresa didn't have any problem making what most people think was the wrong division on the Burt Hill project, and I don't believe she is on the fence with the Pipeline.You can bet when she comes out one way or the other, Chan will be in lock step behind her.
The problem is not whether they are for or against it. The Town voted to be against it. The BOS voted to deny access to town owned land but now they are refusing to meet with Kinder Morgan........... why because they have not done their homework to speak intelligently
Read the Greenfield Reformer's front page today May 27. Our BOS could learn a lot from the towns in MA.
But they won't................ They would rather say they do not have information. I hear they are going to be confronted tonight at the BOS meeting by those who went last night to the presentation they also refused to see.
This pipeline is all about greed. We have town officials that are looking at the promised revenue to fund the things they want to do in town. We have a Conservation Commission Chair that has filed for abatement's and complains about his taxes even though he is instrumental in removing land from the tax map therefore increasing the tax rate. The select board has put all the responsibility for this issue on the Conservation Commission.
That would be fine if our leadership in the commission showed that they are for protecting our land and not just protecting their wallet. At the last meeting a letter was read to move the pipeline not to stop the pipeline. If there is anyone who has ever researched natural gas and pipelines is blatantly obvious that the fracking process and the pipeline infrastructure is damaging to the land and wildlife.
We all need to speak up. Not just here on this Blog. We need to send a letter to the BOS letting them know that they need to oversee what the Chair of the conservation commission is doing and consider who they have chosen to chair that committee.
The BLACK AND WHITE of the matter is.... if you are making your decisions based on potential revenues to reduce your tax rate.... YOUR ARE TAKING A BRIBE!!!
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. quote Plato
The Conservation Commission has said NO period , no alternate routes, no pipeline. They are having to assume the role the BOS refuses to take and fight to protect the town, the aquifer, the water supply, etc., NOT their wallet. There has been no letter to MOVE the pipeline. The letter from the town denies survey, not to move the pipeline. The Conservation Commission has said NO pipeline period and has been meeting regularly to create documents to achieve that goal and is committed to achieve that goal. The CC is in agreement. And there is NO money to be made in revenue if you get the facts. There is no benefit to the town at all so greed has no part in this matter. This is purely a matter of protecting this town from Kinder Morgan who are the greed kings.
The Northern Grid properties and rights of way has been owned and surveyed since the 1930ies. Splitting farms and homesteads right in half. Just like the railroad did years before that. If you know your history. It is kind of late to fight that fight! The pipe lines will pay Northern Grid for the use of their property not the towns. There will be no windfall for the town. There is no town that has the authority or the right to stop owners from surveying of their own property even it was needed. The gas line workers with enter with their need equipment where the power lines intersect with public roads. How stupid are you people. Linder's Plato's quote above is so true to Winchester. You have elected idiots to do your bidding. Good Luck! Your actions are somewhere between useless and waste of time.
Get the facts................. they can not use the power lines. They can not go over the lines. They have to buy, get easements or use eminent domain to get whatever land they select for their route. They can go BESIDE A POWER LINE BUT NOT ON IT NOR WITHIN 50 FEET OF A POWER LINE. And again get the facts............... NO the town cannot stop a property owner from having their land surveyed or working with Kinder Morgan but they can and HAVE ALREADY denied surveying Pulpit Falls which is town owned land bound by deed to not let something like this happen.
Just wondering if any of the SelectBoard (or should it be "Bored"?) were at the meeting where Kinder Morgan presented information. Do they now have "enough information" to make a decision? (Not that the will of the voting public, as expressed in THREE warrant articles should give them any kind of hint as to what the town wants.) I had to work late, so couldn't get there to observe.
YES the Board of Selectmen and Conservatio0n Commission were there. The Board and the CC asked many relavent questions and didn't let Kinder Morgan get away with saying they would get back to us. Thanks BOS for taking a stand............ finally!!!!! Theresa finally came forward and let them know how she felt for sure.
Wise people speak because they have something to say, Fools speak because they have to say something. Theresa Seppe
This (Town) is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Teresa Seppe
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
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