Energy plant unlikely in Henniker
We would rate the chances of Henniker turning anything but a deaf ear to arguments supporting the construction of an energy plant on Old Concord Road somewhere between zilch and subzero. Like its nearby neighbor Hopkinton, the pristine "only one on earth" isn't about to open wide its doors to anything remotely posing an environmental debate.
As with windmills in Nantucket Sound and oil wells offshore or in Alaska, everyone wants to ease our energy crisis until any expansion is proposed near their own back yards. Which is not to argue for or against the power plant, only to observe that energy remedies are always controversial. And no controversy will find a willing home in Henniker.
We can only hope the Henniker Zoning Board will be bound by their own regulations after hearing proponents as well as opponents before ruling on the project. And that those favoring the project are granted as much time to air their arguments as the opponents did Wednesday night.
Energy Plant in Henniker
I just received in the mail a non-profit flyer from Hopkinton. I feel we are back in the cold war era where scaring people and casting fear was common place and no one investigated the facts. If we truly want to keep the quite town of Henniker we have to look at new technology because all of the old technology is killing the environment! The flyer represents if a coal burning plant from 50 years ago was being proposed. There are no substantiate facts, but in Henniker the most outspoken seem to place there heads in the sand after they get all the negative facts and ignore the truth. Is there one person from the Hopkinton group that is an actual scientist that works in the field of biomass plants that can substantiate their claims-NO. If I listen to these people I would go back to spreading lyme on the fields and polluting the air and ground water since wood ash is new so it must be bad. The wood ash doesn't pollute the air and is absorbed into the plants so it doesn't have a chance to pollute the ground water!