HomeMy WebLinkAboutOregon Road - Battery Storage LetterThis news is heartbreaking.
Let’s do everything we can to keep it from becoming real.
I can’t help but think of lines we know so well:
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
One of my greatest pleasures is to walk down Oregon Road, which I do for several
miles every morning before sunrise. I do it in the full appreciation of the beauty all
around me. The walk and the beauty stay with me all day. It makes me proud of where
I live.
At that early hour when the sky slowly turns from black to blue, my only encounters are
with the deer, always curious, the many birds overhead, the cows grazing in the open
field. Oregon Road is pure poetry. It must stay that way.
I can’t imagine the changing colors of the morning interrupted by lights on poles 55 feet
high ablaze 24 hours a day. I can’t imagine the stillness of the day interrupted by the
hum of electricity and industrial activity.
1- Lithium battery storage is a temporary solution to a forever problem. Our forever
problem.
2- Lithium is not bio-degradable.
3- No one knows how to put out a lithium fire.
4- Toxicity is forever.
5- Wildlife is perishable.
6- The economics are against us.
How many reasons do we need not to let something happen?