This letter to the editor is reposted here from the Berkshire Eagle. Despite being denied its petition to break ground at the end of December, Beaver Wood Energy, the company proposing to build a wood-burning biomass plant on the former racetrack site in Pownal, has by no means given up on its plans.

The letter to the editor below is reposted here from the Times Argus. By Richard Czaplinski – Published: January 9, 2011 Things are stacking up, and we are not paying attention. Several interesting articles in the Sunday Times Argus/Rutland Herald (Jan. 2) about Vermont’s energy future caught my attention.

The following letter to the editor is reposted here from the Times Argus. The letter is from Robert Dostis. Dostis is Green Mountain Power’s director of external affairs. Published: January 9, 2011 Readers of this paper should have balanced information regarding the merits of large-scale wind generation, in particular Green Mountain Power’s Kingdom Community Wind [...]

Reposted here from iBerkshires.com. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The biomass issue is not going away and Williams College will host a second forum in an attempt to answer residents’ questions.

The January 5th 2010 edition of the Barton Chronicle covers the Sheffield wind project recieving financing, and carries a letter from Green Mountain Power about the Lowell project. You can download the PDF here.

This commentary by Annette Smith ran in the Times Argus. It is reposted here from the original there. Mary Powell, Green Mountain Power’s president and CEO, has been busy. If only what she writes were true, then we would have no worries about high costs, unreliability or natural resources.

Vermont Law School has published their top ten environmental watch items for 2011. Number 7 is “Wind and Solar Projects Make Breakthroughts.” Their write up is below. Both Annette Smith and Ben Luce have posted comments steering the discussion towards more community scale projects.