In response to the article published in the Union Leader on Feb. 19 2009 “Anti Scrubber Group Grows, Adds Kamen”. Gary Hirshberg and the Commercial Ratepayers Group seem to be compiling quite a list of who’s who  to battle PSNH’s effort to build a state of the art scrubbing system to finally scrub its emissions and rid our air of the toxic carbons that have been hovering over our state for over 30 years from the Bow Power Plant.
  Missing from this prestigious list however are the ratepayers who’s jobs will be lost, do to the ultimate closure of the power house if their agenda is met. Hundreds of jobs from people that live paycheck to paycheck whose probability of finding a new job comparable to the one that they currently have in today’s economy are slim to none. People that don’t own a Yogurt Plant, Investment group, Restaurant or invented the “segway”. People who are one paycheck away from unemployment checks food stamps Healthy kids Medicare or even welfare. People whom would gladly contribute through their utility bill to ensure their kids are breathing clean air and still have the most affordable energy in New England piped to their homes.
  It is also my understanding that our PUC’s very job is to make the decision as to whether or not PSNH is to continue forward with the scrubber project as instructed by the legislature not two years ago. I think our prestigious group of concerned ratepayers hidden agenda is to have the Bow plant shut down for the one reason that it burns coal and they see the current makeup of our legislature as the very avenue in which to do so.
  I hope our legislatures keep in mind the precious jobs that will be lost if this important project does not move forward and also the tons of carbon that will continue to pollute are skies with costly delays.