Victory: Mill Pond Project | Eastern NC Now

    Stan:

    It became official today that Torch Energy threw in the towel regarding the proposed Mill Pond wind project!

    This came about because of two reasons:

    1 - they realized that Newport and Carteret County would definitely impose quality protections for citizens, businesses, the environment and the military, and

    2 - they saw that there was very strong community support for those protections.

    This was a community victory, and an exceptional example of what can be done when citizens work together in a constructive, effective way.

    Before we have an official celebration, we MUST complete the fine effort that we have initiated, by seeing that Newport and Carteret County finish the upgrade for their wind ordinances, including ALL of the Bullet Points.

    We are no longer under the gun, but we also need to be better prepared for another such possibility.

    Please support those two efforts, and I will keep you posted on their progress.

    We'd also like to improve H484, Senate Bill 3, and the DOD Clearinghouse process. Three months ago most local citizens had little knowledge of what those things were. Today a lot more do, and I'm hoping that many will join me in working on those important state matters.

    THANK YOU for your commitment and sacrifice to making our community a better, safer place to live.


    John Droz, jr.
      physicist & environmental advocate