Posted on 09/22/2014 10:21:12 AM PDT by thackney
In a special meeting Saturday, the town of Hollis voted to oppose the construction of a natural gas pipeline that would run under the town.
Four-hundred and twenty people attended a special town meeting Saturday morning in the Hollis-Brookline High School gym. Townspeople debated the controversial pipeline, which would run through the middle of Hollis from the southwest to the northeast.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline argues that the pipeline is necessary to meet increasing energy demands in the northeast. The natural gas company submitted a proposal to build the pipeline in 2018, which the New Hampshire Energy Facility Site Evaluation committee approved.
But many Hollis townspeople say the proposed pipeline would have a disastrous environmental impact. They say the pipeline could contaminate drinking water, threaten local wildlife, and destroy the town's natural beauty.
Let them freeze in the dark.
Basically. Their objections (voiced objections at any rate) are absurd. NIMBYism at its best (worst?).
They probably have gas lines running up and down every street in town.
There are no gas lines in Hollis , NH at present. Hollis is one of the most affluent towns in NH. It is still very rural in many ways. There is still a lot of farmland in town. There is only one gas line running west out of Nashua to Milford. The main trunk line runs north and south from Nashua up to Manchester and ends in Concord. There is another line that runs from Maine down along route 1 through NH into Mass.
The lack of natural gas is the problem here in southern NH. Why they voted the way they did is not clear to me. I live in the town just to the north side of there. There are many rich people and large land owners that live there. It is the town immediately west of Nashua on the Mass border.
They voted that way because they are nonthinking zombies whose liberal ignorance trumps reality every time. It will be interesting if they freeze during upcoming winters. Maybe they vare banking of gloBULL warming to save them.
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