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PRESS RELEASE - May 11, 2008
On Thursday, May 8, the Concerned Citizens for the Preservation of Watertown hosted an informational meeting with Tamarack Energy Inc, which has proposed to construct a state-of-the-art clean wood to power plant in Watertown beginning this fall. Tamarack has an option to purchase 33 acres on Echo Lake Road where the 30 megawatt plant would be build, and recently received approval from the Connecticut Siting Council to build the first clean wood energy plant in the state. The Connecticut Siting Council regulates any Connecticut power facility over 1 megawatt. Two other developers are in the process of receiving approvals to build biomass energy plants in eastern Connecticut.
Mark Mirabito, project manager and Mike Trahan from Tamarack showed slides of the proposed facility and explained that the emissions will be significantly less than those from conventional fossil fuel power plants.. The exiting roads could easily accommodate the 40 to 50 trucks per day that would deliver clean chipped wood to the site without having a significant impact on the traffic in the surrounding area. ng a significant impact on the traffic in the surrounding area.
The meeting was well attended by about 30 residents who asked numerous questions about the process and facility. The project was enthusiastically endorsed by the Concerned Citizens for the Preservation of Watertown as the type of development needed to increase Watertown’s tax base while requiring minimal Town services.
It is anticipated that Tamarack will be one of Watertown’s largest taxpayers.
One resident, citing a recent letter in the Town Times indicating that Watertown was not friendly to business development, asked if Tamarack had found that to be the case. Mark Mirabito responded that they have found Watertown to be wonderful to do business with and feared that they had become spoiled as they might expect future projects to go as smoothly as this one.