Sens. Ayotte, Shaheen and Rep. Kuster, we need a third scoping session:
I sent an email to Eric Tomasi (the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s environmental project manager for the Northeast Direct
Pipeline) on June 2, 2015, making a case for a scoping session in
Rindge. My final statement in the email was that I was beginning to feel
the regulatory process under FERC was a farce. I also sent a copy of
the same email to FERC’s e-comments. I received a confirmation on that
e-comment, so I know they got it.
The newly scheduled open
houses are a sorry excuse for being transparent. They do however,
satisfy the request of all of our legislators that Kinder Morgan listen
to us.
Time has moved on, a
FERC-mailed document and articles in our local papers told us that there
would be a scoping session in Nashua and Milford and a TBD session in
the Winchester area. So, hope springs eternal; in the Monadnock Region,
we felt, we were finally going to get a chance to voice our concerns.
Much letter-writing to
Concord and Washington about the need for more time and a third scoping
session in the Monadnock Region prompted Eric Tomasi to tell the
assembled people in Nashua that there would definitely be a third
session in the Monadnock Region. Hopes soared, our government was going
to work for us.
The next day, at the
Milford scoping session, Tomasi made no announcement about a third
scoping session in the Monadnock Region. This prompted my wife to ask
Eric why he did not tell the Milford crowd that a third session was
being scheduled. Eric got evasive and wouldn’t give her a straight
answer. My guess is the bureaucrats in Washington felt the storm had
blown over, they had heard quite enough objections to this pipeline and
they could move on to business as usual.
I should note at this point that people were turned away at the Milford scoping session because the town hall was full.
I hope this letter,
email, e-comment, etc., is making people angry, I’m tired of big-money
politics, petro-dollars, a government managed by lobbyists, and an
organization masquerading as a regulatory body telling us we have to
live with a project that has a cost, but no benefit. I’ve been fighting
this project since December of 2014; please help me make this effort
worthwhile. Please write to your representatives and senators, the
governor, our Executive Council, representatives and senators in
Washington, FERC, most of all, and my Executive Councilor David
Wheeler’s favorite bureaucrat, Eric Tomasi. My hope is that everyone
will send so many postings, by whatever is your preferred method, that
they are still digging out of it next July.
Before I go any further, please note Eric’s email address: eric.tomasi@FERC.gov
Please feel free to use the text of this message if it in any way will
help you communicate your concern to our government and the media.
Social media-oriented folks, have at it. Citizens of New Hampshire,
let’s make General John and Molly Stark proud of what we are doing here
in New Hampshire in the 21st century.
JAN A. GRISKA
18 Atlantic Drive
Rindge
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