Power Plant Revisited

Journal story....

Middletown power plant project called a “game-changer” for region

excerpts......


“It’s certainly going to be a game changer I think for Middletown and really the surrounding region,” said Middletown Mayor Larry Mulligan Jr., also the Butler-Warren market president for First Financial Bank, at Monday’s meeting. That hearing was organized by Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and its local monitoring arm Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency.

“With so many coal-fired plants that are coming offline the next six to 10 year period, having new sources of clean energy are going to be vitally important to our region and really the economy and the manufacturing base that we have here,” Mulligan said

WE SHALL SEE LAWRENCE. THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY AGENDAS THAT YOU HAVE CALLED "GAME CHANGERS" WE'VE BEEN A TAD BIT GUN SHY FOR AWHILE NOW.

Additionally, the capital investment and the 300 to 400 construction jobs that the project is expected to create will provide the city a large, one-time influx of cash to spend on improving roads and other infrastructure, City Manager Doug Adkins said in testimony provided Tuesday. The second hearing was organized by Ohio Power Siting Board

A "ONE TIME" INFLUX. OK, BUT THIS CITY NEEDS AN ONGOING INFLUX ADKINS....AND I'M NOT HOLDING MY BREATH WHEN YOU MENTION THAT THE MONEY WILL BE SPENT ON ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. OTHER MONIES WERE TO BE SPENT ON ROADS BUT WERE DIVERTED TO OTHER PROJECTS. IS IT GOING TO BE BUSINESS AS USUAL FROM THIS CITY MANAGER?

AND I REALLY LIKE THIS FROM ADKINS......

“We are now in a place where we are ready to move forward coming out of recession, and we’re poised for growth. We sit on a major interstate. We have a great location between Dayton and Cincinnati, which is continuing to grow towards us from both sides,” Adkins said. “We have rail access, we have our own operating airport.”

AND WHAT HAS THE CITY DONE WITH THESE ACKNOWLEDGED AMENITIES?

LORD HAVE MERCY. IF THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE SINCE DAY ONE, WHY HAVEN'T YOU USED THIS TO THE CITY'S ADVANTAGE? EMPTY WORDS, AGAIN FROM CITY MANAGEMENT. SOMEONE MUST HAVE PULLED THE RING BEHIND THE NECK AGAIN.

“Our hope is to take the benefits of this project, which will be a one-time large influx of income tax dollars for the city, pool it with the fact that our schools are now in the process of developing two to three new schools, which will expand again our source of one-time revenues, and use that strategically with our new plans to develop infrastructure,” he said

WHAT? LET'S SEE....ONE TIME INFLUX FROM THE PROJECT.......POOL IT WITH THE FACT OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING TWO TO THREE NEW SCHOOLS....WHAT DOES THE ONE TIME MONEY INFLUX HAVE TO DO WITH THE SCHOOLS BUILDING NEW FACILITIES? ....AND EXPAND THE ONE TIME REVENUE TO USE STRATEGICALLY WITH NEW PLANS........ WHAT?

“Improving the available energy supply of our businesses and residents will create a long-term benefit for the local economy,” said Denise Hamet, Middletown’s economic development director.

“Interruptions in power supply can cause critical work stoppages for businesses, so anything that increases the supply of power, enhances the reliability of energy for businesses,” she said

NICE, SAFE MISHMASH OF PALABER FROM HAMET AGAIN.

The proposed site where the power plant would be built is located strategically in an area — along the Cincinnati-Dayton Road corridor — that local nonprofit development group Middletown Moving Forward wants to help develop, said Ken Cohen, the group’s president.

“It’s perfect because of the access to railroad, access to gas and it’s really on the perimeter of the heavy industry area of Middletown,” said Cohen, also president of Middletown-based metal recycling company Cohen and a member of the board of The Chamber of Commerce Serving Middletown, Monroe and Trenton.

"PERIMETER OF THE HEAVY INDUSTRY". GUESS COHEN MEANS AK STEEL AND AK STEEL ALONE.

COHEN AGAIN.....

“As far as the community is concerned, Middletown is making a lot of headway. Morale in the community is moving up,” Cohen said

ARE YOU SURE COHEN? WHAT IS YOUR INDICATOR THAT THIS IS HAPPENING?

DUNNO WHO IS TRYING TO BS WHO HERE.