Thursday, June 9, 2011
Attleboro Residents with Important Safety Concerns (@RISC) hope to stop companies like Ze-gen from building in Attleboro.
A group of Attleboro residents have asked the Attleboro City Council to consider changing language in zoning laws to stop companies like Boston-based Ze-gen from ever calling Attleboro their home. Ze-gen announced last month that it will no longer continue its plans to open a plant in Attleboro. Charlie Adler and George Morin, members of Attleboro Residents with Important Safety Concerns (@RISC), went before the council Tuesday night to express concern for what they consider loopholes in Attleboro's zoning laws and ask for an amendment to the law. City Councilor Duff White, who has been at each of Ze-gen's public hearings before the city's Conservation Commission, introduced an amendment to the existing zoning laws which would ultimately …
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Ze-gen has changed its mind on building a gasification plant in Attleboro's old Texas Instruments industrial park.
Ze-gen, a waste-to-energy business in Boston, has suspended its clean energy project in Attleboro, the company announced today. Newly appointed chief operating officer and former senior vice president of technology David Robertson said the reason it decided to no longer consider Attleboro is "largely speaking because the price of natural gas has evolved since they built the pilot plan in New Bedford." "We’ve seen the price of natural gas trend down and that is certainly a key factor," Roberston said. "If the Attleboro Clean Energy Project was already up and running, we could withstand the economic drop in natural gas prices, but the combination of economic pressures and the recent delays to the project schedule has led us to conclude …
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Attleboro residents want answers from Ze-gen.
Attleboro residents who fear the impact of a "green" company that has plans to build in the city are rallying the community to help stop the business that they believe will be harmful to their health, the environment and their house values. Attleboro Residents with Important Safety Concerns, @RISC, has been busy investigating, researching and uncovering what they believe to be a business that will bring harm to the city and its residents through risk of fire, explosions and long-term health problems. Signs 18'' by 24'' in size are being printed to line the streets of Attleboro to get the community's attention on the project and the group has created a website called greenattleboro and a Facebook page to reach out to others in the …
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Attleboro conservation commissioner fights for resident's right to speak during a public hearing on a controversial business.
Attleboro residents again packed City Hall Wednesday night to speak out against Ze-Gen, a company that plans to build a gasifcation plant in an industrial park on Pleasant Street. Ze-Gen's attorney, Edward Casey, went before the Attleboro Conservation Commission to discuss the interest by the public in being included in a site visit to the proposed location for the plant. Casey said Ze-Gen would be open to allowing the public in small groups to visit the site, but the visits would be separate from the official site visit by the commission. When Charlie Adler, a resident representing @RISC (Attleboro Residents With Important Safety Concerns), took to the podium to address the commission, he was told by the commission's chairman, Eric Prive…
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Residents ask Conservation Commission to think about their health and the environment before saying yes to Ze-gen.
It was a standing-room crowd of concerned and interested citizens at Attleboro City Hall Wednesday night. The crowd of residents were there to speak against Ze-gen, Inc., a renewable energy company proposing to build a $20 million gasification facility in the Attleboro Corporate Campus (former Texas Instruments Industrial Park) on Pleasant Street. This was the first of several public presentations and hearings required by the city before the project can move forward. Further informational presentations and public hearings will be conducted before the zoning and planning boards as well as with the health department. David Robertson, vice president of technology at Ze-gen, founded in 2004, briefly explained that the proposed plant would …
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Charlie Adler
10:54 am on Friday, May 27, 2011
Let's think about what makes good design, which can be inherently beautiful. A good design principle is to try to work with nature, rather than against it. Flower baskets hanging from lampposts can be attractive, but take a lot of maintenance, watering, etc. There used to be a perennial flower garden hiding in the back of Capron Park. I haven't checked this year to see if it is blooming. A more … more ›