Ways To Help
Save Vermont Ridgelines, Inc. is a non-profit volunteer organization that was formed to gather and share information about the PPM wind energy facility proposed in the Green Mountain National Forest in Searsburg and Readsboro, Vermont. To that end, we have created a website, ClearSkyVt.org, to educate the public as to our findings. We believe an industrial wind energy facility such as PPM Energy is proposing has no place on pristine mountain ridgelines on National Forest land.
To date, our group has conducted several mass informational mailings to nearby homeowners and business owners. We have also placed several ads in our local newspaper which highlight different facts about the proposed project that the general public might not be aware of. Many of our group’s members have written letters to our local newspapers, the Vermont Public Service Board, the US Forest Service, our elected officials, and conservation groups to voice our concerns about this project. We regularly attend town board meetings and have petitioned to allow voters in affected towns to be able to vote on this issue.
Save Vermont Ridgelines, Inc. recently became an intervening party in the Vermont Public Service Board's Docket No. 7250 - Petition of Deerfield Wind LLC for a Certificate of Public Good. We have retained expert legal counsel to represent us in these legal proceedings. Large legal documents we receive must be professionally reproduced. Our group is now incorporated and we have filed for non-profit status. Both of these legal procedures involved quite a bit of time, effort and filing fees.
All of these efforts require commitment and a good deal of resources. Your donation will help defray the costs we have already incurred, and will incur in the near future, for informational mailings, copying charges, filing fees, advertising costs and mounting legal fees. Any amount donated will help ease our financial burden of this important fight.
Please mail your donation to:
Save Vermont Ridgelines, Inc.
PO Box 722
Wilmington, VT 05363
Thank you for your donation and your support.
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Here is a copy of our letter to Vermont's Governor Jim Douglas
If you haven't already done so, please write a letter to himexplaining why you feel this project is a bad idea.
If you prefer an email, there is a direct link at his website,
www.governor.vermont.gov <http://www.governor.vermont.gov> .
The Vermont Public Service Board needs to hear from as many people as possible that the proposed Searsburg/Readsboro project is not for pristine ridgelines in a National Forest.
Please send your comments to:
Vermont Public Service Board
112 State Street, Drawer 20
Montpelier, VT 05620-2701
Reference "Docket No. 7250- Deerfield Wind Project" on your correspondence
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For more Info email us at - ClearSkyVT@yahoo.com
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Below is the revised schedule to intervene. It gives the Public Service Board a chance to hear from the public regarding the proposal to build a new wind generation project in the towns of Searsburg and Readsboro, Vermont.
It's important to make your voice heard!
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Schedule
To see the complete page dedicated to this case visit
http://www.state.vt.us/psb/document/7250Deerfield/deerfield-main.htm
To visit the Company proposing the project; PPMenergy.com/Deerfield
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