Environment
The proposed 105-megawatt lithium ion battery storage project site is 51 acres of forest and wetlands in the rural town of Wendell, adjacent to one of the most pristine Core Habitat areas in the state, an ‘exemplary natural community.’
Safety
There have been multiple serious battery storage fires in California, Arizona, and New York. Lithium fires cannot be put out but must burn, causing serious pollution and requiring area resident evacuation.
Alternatives
This industrial sized battery storage isn’t appropriate for the climate, people or region but there are options that are suitable.
Local Democracy
The time-honored tradition of local rule over local issues based
on free elections and democratic town meetings is under threat from increasingly centralized command and control. Critical decisions about our energy future are being made by tiny groups of people in corporate offices and state agencies empowered to decide what’s best for us by a system that views towns as pawns not partners.
See Statement from March 5, 2024 on Energy Infrastructure Siting and Permitting