The justification between differences of multi-jurisdictional public health protection has become clouded. All indications point to “Blood money.”
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On the heels of Fukushima, Plymouth’s Pilgrim Plant operation has been the concern of considerable public opposition. In 2013, every Cape town, through Town Meeting or ballot vote, approved petitions asking Gov. Patrick, as the state’s top official, to call for Pilgrim’s closure. The public’s health on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket was then, and remains threatened by the operation at Pilgrim
Future Generation Wind (FGW)
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*Four industrial sized wind turbines co-located on an Ocean Spray cranberry farm in Plymouth, MA as near as 1000 feet from residential property owners.
On the heels of the states continuing examination of public safety and land-based industrial wind turbine siting (see Oct 31, 2013 investigation by the state’s Department of Public Utilities for the Siting of Land-Based Wind Energy Facilities and the MassDEP Wind Turbine and Noise Technical Advisory Group (WNTAG) who’s mission is to advise; protect public health, safety and well-being relative land-based industrial wind energy projects)FGW recently won approval from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) school committee and the Duxbury Board of Selectmen to contract the sale of renewable energy credits (RECs) to reduce future school and municipal electricity costs.
Demarcation Denominator
Public health concerns extending beyond the town-lines of Plymouth, regarding Pilgrim, are arguably warranted. Giving concern to whether the same town-line should veil and separate concern for a neighboring municipality’s residents, if the state’s investigations are indicative of “unknown safe zones,” from a similar, yet demensionally smaller, public health concern?
Is it fundamentally permissible as a coalition of communities, to contract fiscal reparations for one community while potentially threatening the health and well being of residents in another?
When does a town’s boundary, in this – the greatest country on earth – define concern and caring for your neighbor in the next town over? The distinction whether to care or not is seeminly becoming tied to money, more often than not.
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