Roselli acknowledged that the nearly 800-acre parcel on Wallum Lake Road is a desirable location for a fossil fuel facility. “That is the most important part of the whole equation.” “he fossil fuel power plant did not fit in to that transformation,” he said. Roselli said the single factor, however, that defeated the project was the EFSB’s recognition that having a massive natural-gas power plant operate for more than 40 years didn’t fit into state goals to diversify and modernize the power sector. In all, 32 cities and towns in Rhode Island, along with Douglas, Fall River, and Webster, Mass., and Thompson, Conn., formally opposed the project, as did all major environmental groups in Rhode Island. Roselli praised the coalition of opponents that mobilized against the fracked-gas project, much of which he assembled by delivering PowerPoint presentations to city and town councils and other organizations. Invenergy is gone,” said Paul Roselli, president of the Burrillville Land Trust and one of the key organizers of the opposition movement. “Here we are 10 days later to the minute and it’s dead. 5 when the EFSB released its written report detailing why it turned down the energy project. The 10-day window for Invenergy to contest the project’s rejection opened Nov. “This is a victory for the climate, a victory for the people of Burrillville, and a victory for us all,” Elmer said in an email to supporters. when the office closed and the deadline passed for Chicago-based Invenergy to file an appeal. Jerry Elmer, senior attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, exited the clerk’s office shortly after 4 p.m. 15 outside the Licht Judicial Complex on Benefit Street for an impromptu celebration of the official end of the Clear River Energy Center. No building and trades representatives were present at the June 20 hearing when the EFSB voted, 3-0, to deny the project.Ī handful of project opponents gathered Nov. But there was no more physical contact, and during the next three years the union presence fizzled out. The tension between union groups and opponents persisted during public hearings at Burrillville High School, protests at the Statehouse, and at Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) meetings.
Raimondo left the event through a side door without addressing the media or crowd gathered outside.
Several tradesmen bull-rushed activists from the environmental-justice group FANG (Fight Against Natural Gas), pushing them to the side. Outside on the sidewalk, members of the Rhode Island Building & Construction Trades Council and protesters shouted at each other. Gina Raimondo, Invenergy CEO Michael Polsky, union leaders, and other business dignitaries lauded the potential job and climate crisis benefits of the nearly 1,000-megawatt natural gas/diesel energy facility. 4, 2015 with a high-profile press event at the downtown office of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. PROVIDENCE - The fossil fuel power plant proposed for the woods of Burrillville went out with a whimper.
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