To the editor: Those of us who oppose the terrible Rest of River plan arenât doing it because of hard feelings.
We realize that weâve seen this movie before and know that General Electric Co. canât be trusted and we donât wish to leave their poison in the Berkshires forever for a comparative pittance of money. Also, in a supposed democratic republic, popular will, not a corporationâs greed, needs to matter.
Letâs take another incident where a company was allowed to ride roughshod over popular will. Tennessee Gas, in violation of Massachusettsâ state constitution and popular will, was allowed to build a pipeline through Otis State Forest. The reason residents were against it because of the harm they thought it would do to Otis State Forest. But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission pretended to believe Tennessee Gasâ assurance that they would protect Otis State Forest.