Pipeline expansion project a horrible idea

By Canton Citizen

Editor’s note: The letter below references a decision made by the Board of Selectmen at its August 9 meeting. A recap of the meeting appears in the August 11 edition of the Canton Citizen.

Dear Editor:

My sister tells me that since fracking has been rampant in Oklahoma, they have had more earthquakes than ever before, more so than even California, a much larger state.

Thanks to the subservient, go-away-closer letter of the Board of Selectmen, our state legislature and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission believe that the people of Canton are looking forward to being blown up by the pipelines that Spectra Energy wants to plough through our backyards. You who aren’t in the crosshairs of this dangerous venture should not breathe easy: when their houses blow up thanks to the added number of leaks in town, yours may go, too.

Spectra is selling our politicians on the idea that we will get more energy resources this way. They willfully ignore the fact that fracking, not fixing our current leaks (of which there are thousands, to quote a Boston Globe report), and providing even more sources for gas leaks is highly irresponsible. The lessons of the many explosions we already have in this country (Salem Township, Pennsylvania being the most recent example) while ignoring solar and wind energy development is dangerous, to say the least.

I for one do not look forward to providing the gun through utility taxes that pay for the pipeline that may take our lives.

There is also evidence that these pipelines are being planned to culminate in ports in Maine and Canada, providing energy to sell to other countries. So much for benefiting the people of Canton. I will find out more about this carefully kept secret … the truth, not just opinions parroted by willfully ignorant politicians.

Kevin Feeney, you are truly a brave selectman. I am so used to the lock-step actions of the BOS, I was quite surprised to see some courage being exhibited. There are at least 300 Canton citizens who are not sheeple, willing to step forward and be counted on this dangerous issue, about which we are told so little. The town councils of Weymouth, Stoughton, and Sharon have put themselves on the line as being accountable to stop this invasion of our homes with the burrowing snakes of gas that will enrich the already rich by endangering the rest of us. What’s wrong with the selectmen of Canton (except for our brilliant, compassionate Mr. Feeney)?

But a town that is willing to have homes built on carcinogenic soil near a pond full of dangerous heavy metals (i.e., the Revere Heritage Project, so horribly misnamed) can’t be expected to care for the lives of its people.

Sincerely,

Alice Brown

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