The fifth and sixth deliberation meetings of the Governor’s Energy Generation Siting Policy Commission will take place on:
Dates:
Tuesday, March 12
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time:
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location:
Giga Conference Room, 3rdfloor, Vermont Public Service Department, 112 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont.
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Meeting Purpose
The Commissioners will continue to deliberate upon options to address their charges, some of which are presented in the Draft Options Paper available at sitingcommission.vermont.gov/publications, in the Deliberative Session #3 materials.
Public Comments Period
The Siting Commission continues to welcome comments on the Draft Options Paper. Comments should be submitted no later than, and preferably before, April 5, 2013.
Comments can be made using the Open Comment Form at sitingcommission.vermont.gov/public_involvement.
Dates, times, and locations of Commission meetings and public hearings are subject to change. Interested parties are encouraged to consult the Siting Commission’s website, sitingcommission.vermont.gov, for any updates.
All meetings of the Commission are open to the public. Any member of the public who requires reasonable accommodation for the March 12 meeting should make his or her request by 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 6; requests for accommodation for the March 20 meeting should be made by 4 p.m. on Friday, March 15. Requests should be made to Michelle Hughes at (802) 828-3065.
The Public Service Department is an agency within the executive branch of Vermont state government. Its charge is to represent the public interest in matters regarding energy, telecommunications, water and wastewater.
.. they are not hearings. Those are all done, as are the public hearings and the site visits. Deliberations take place in a smallish room with mostly just commission members participating, I believe.
The hearings were impressive; attending them you heard ALL sides of the issue of siting large energy projects: You heard from wind developers, state agency people, utilities, selectboards, regional development boards, environmental groups, conservation groups, lawyers, citizens, legislators and neighbors.
Kinda like the town meetings we used to have (depending on where you live) whicht were wonderful because like it or not, you heard people from throughout your community and could then see their perspective, as opposed to just yours. EXCEPT for the utilities– on the day allotted to them they left right after they testified, not bothering to stay and hear what the people affected had to say (too bad).
Anybody here attend any or some of the commission hearings?
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