To the editor,
For weeks now, I have read the rubbish and lies, yes outright lies, being written by the NIMBYs of Oxford and the surrounding region. Their opposition to the proposed power plant in Oxford borders on lunacy. Not only are the lies devoted to air pollution, health hazards and property values, they are also directed at business development as evidenced by the comment in Fredrick Raskopf’s Dec. 26 letter, where he states, with absolutely no proof, that a major insurance company was going to build their national headquarters in Naugatuck. Ya think?
As a resident of Naugatuck who stays very current on town events, I venture to say I would have heard at least a rumor about a major new headquarters coming to town. Would Mr. Raskopf kindly substantiate his rather doubtful claim, please? And Mr. Raskopf, you state that many more businesses would be attracted to our region without the power plant, but where will the power they require come from? Oh, yeah, someone else’s backyard. Got it.
Karl Marx once referred to people like our current crop of NIMBYs as “useful idiots,” and rightfully so. They are easily manipulated and misled.
As an example, Carol Fogel, Ruth Schiff, Peter Polstein, John Retartha and other recent letter writers have all written about the extreme danger of pollutants from the plant. Never mind that natural gas is so clean we can burn it as an open flame in our homes without venting, yet somehow coming out of a 150-foot smokestack it is going to destroy the earth.
Several of these individuals mindlessly quoted the inaccuracies from www.stoptowanticpower.com just like parrots. One statement that stood out in several of the letters was the statement that the plant would produce nitrogen oxide as a major pollutant. I would like to remind our “useful idiots” that earth’s atmosphere is made up of 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen for a total of 99 percent. These two elements make up nitrogen oxide, the so-called pollutant. If it is so dangerous, how come 99 percent of the air we breathe is made up of these two elements?
Since telling the truth is obviously not important to this crowd of 60’s retreads, let me state a rumor I recently heard, namely that Towantic, if this proposal fails, will instead build a wind farm with hundreds of clean, green wind turbines at the Oxford site. What could be better? Clean, non-polluting, if you don’t mind a bunch of dead bird corpses lying about, and environmentally responsible.
I wonder if any of these NIMBYs have any valid suggestions as to where we should obtain more electric power from. They never do, yet they are the first to complain when their power is interrupted. Where and how do you recommend we add to the power grid, as we certainly must, because we continue to increase our electrical demand.
A question for you all, how many of you would be willing to sign up to have your electricity cut off or reduced in the event of a power shortage? Don’t all jump up at once.
It is nice to assume that someone else’s backyard will be “polluted” by a power plant, but let it not be mine. What hypocrites. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
George Sirois
Naugatuck
