Task force opposing Brockton power facility to draft bill temporarily halting new plants


December 10, 2009
Sandra Churchill, The Enterprise
WEST BRIDGEWATER —Writing new legislation to temporarily halt all construction of fossil-fuel power plants in Massachusetts is the next step for the a regional task force in its efforts to halt the proposed Brockton power plant...

"If we are going to build new fossil-fuel plants ... where should they go?" asked attorney Eugene Benson, program director for the nonprofit Alternatives for Community & Environment, which is providing free legal counsel to Brockton and West Bridgewater on the issue. "A moratorium is a chance to take a breath and say we’re changing and rethink how that’s done."

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