NoPlainvilleRacino wrote: "By the way, last year, our dedicated and knowledgeable Energy Committee came to the town with a detailed proposal to become a Green Community. There were hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of grants that we could have to make our public buildings and schools more energy efficient. We could allow a solar farm on our old dump, with the excess electricity coming back to Plainville for free or a mere pittance. We could call ourselves a "Green Community" and become involved with a movement toward sustainability that attracts people and businesses to a town.
Even builders and developers who generally hate regulation coming down from the state encouraged the town to vote for the article. They made the observation that the regulations they'd have to abide by in a Green Community this year would be required everywhere in a couple of years anyway, so why not speed it up and reap the rewards — short term and long term?
Instead, after Andrea Soucy rose to talk about how much she hates "squiggly lightbulbs" and her ignorant fear-mongering about what Big Brother would come into our homes to make us do (ALL absent ANY facts), the town narrowly defeated the article.
Plainville has a long history of voting against its own best interests."
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