Brockton Power Plant

In response to previous comments about the proposed Dirty Brockton Power Plant in, a friend with respiratory problems sent the following comment:

And BTW, Middleboro air quality is below the state average.

Asthma rates are the fastest growing in our region????

Why are all the athletes in China wearing masks?

We cannot afford to add 55,000 vehicles for a Middleboro Casino? Dirty Air! How Much More Can the Body Take?

At this late date, the Middleboro Board of Selectmen seem not to have noticed that the proposed Dirty Power Plant will effect already poor air quality.

The Brockton Enterprise offered the following 2 recent articles about the progress:
Mayor pledges to take Brockton plant fight all the way
Brockton Mayor James E. Harrington vows to appeal to the state’s highest court if a siting board approves the facility. Brockton Enterprise

Testimony against Brockton power plant gets noticed Brockton Enterprise

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The proposed Dirty Brockton Power Plant will burn DIESEL FUEL, have a 250 foot tall smoke stack and create 1,600,000 GALLONS of WASTEWATER MIST DAILY. LINK Will that air stay in Brockton?

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The following are previous pertinent blogs:

Energy Conservation: It's Time

Brockton Power Plant

Increased Air Quality Standards

Brockton Power Plant

Middleboro: Impressive Choices! referenced the following:

Media Nation reports:
Oh, but not to worry, says search committee member Wayne Perkins, a former selectman and casino backer. Yunits may be taking money from a firm funded in part by the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and the South African casino moguls who are behind all this, but his work with Liberty Square is "strictly" limited to lobbying for a power plant in Brockton.

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While you're at it, please sign the petition to support the closure of the Dirty Coal Burning Salem Power Plant: Petition