Residents ban unsustainable energy projects at Special Town Meeting
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 1, 2018.
Last night, residents at a Special Town Meeting in Plymouth, NH, voted 132 to 19 to adopt their Community Rights-Based Ordinance for a Sustainable Energy Future. The ordinance asserts their right to clean air, pure water, and local community self-government, and bans land acquisition for the construction or operation of unsustainable energy projects as a violation of those rights. MORE…