I’m going to hit you with a lot of jargon in this piece, but I hope to explain as I go: On September 20, in the midst of the Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) hearings …
“What today’s postponement means is that Invenergy is a zombie. It may not realize yet that it’s dead, but it’s dead,” said Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer at the conclusion of Wednesday …
Invenergy‘s proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island is not dead yet. Today the company issued a stipulation asking the Energy Facilities …
“It’s really a moral issue,” said Brown University Professor Timmons Roberts during cross examination before the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) last Thursday. “We need to stop building these. We’re not going to solve this …
Invenergy‘s expert witness Ryan Hardy fought with Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer for 75 minutes on Tuesday morning during the Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) hearings on the licensing of the company’s …
“Perhaps the oldest branch of conservation law is the law of fresh water allocation. It is inherently the preoccupation of that body of jurisprudence that the long-term sustainability of a collective vital resource not be …
“[F]rankly, we don’t really care. Why should we? If you turn on a spigot, the water goes into a truck, we don’t care whether it goes into a truck, it goes into a bottle, what …
In another day of hearings before Rhode Island Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB), witness Michael Marous said that the yellow signs put up in and around Burrillville do more to hurt property values than the …
“And you’d have no problem with your children breathing it?” asked Burrillville attorney Michael McElroy, referring to the pollution that would be generated by Invenergy‘s proposed power plant. “No,” said Invenergy witness Mark Wiitanen, Senior …
Invenergy’s July 12 press release saying that “survey work will begin in early August” for the proposed interconnection line is “an obvious effort at misdirection,” says Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer. “Invenergy …
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