HARTFORD – Dozens of Trumbull residents on Thursday asked state lawmakers to protect the Nichols neighborhood from a planned fuel-cell facility that would depend on high-pressure natural gas flowing through 50-year-old pipes.
Wearing “Fragile Handle With Care” lapel stickers, the Trumbulites, led by their legislative delegation and First Selectman Timothy Herbst, told the Energy & Technology Committee that state regulators should be able to consider public safety issues when reviewing applications.
Although Danbury-based DFC ERG CT has not yet applied for approval with the state Siting Council, town residents fear excessive carbon emissions and other possible hazards from its 3.4-megawatt gas-fired fuel cell electricity generator.
“We need to require a greater standard for having public hearings, letting residents be heard, allowing those that might object to an application the opportunity to present evidence, to make their case, to build a strong administrative record,” Herbst said during an afternoon news conference prior to the public hearing.
—By Ken Dixon
More information should be published informing CT citizens of the biased judgements of the CT Siting Council in favor of industry and corporations rather than individuals. There are 4 bills in the legislature that need support to stop the Council from unfair treatment of CT townspeople.
JL
Comment by June Lee — March 29th, 2010 @ 1:19 pm