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Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 21:05:09 PM EDT
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(Congrats on an important breakthrough for Massachusetts. Ah, if only economic development moneys were aimed at these types of local, cooperative endeavors, we'd be in a different place right now! - promoted by eli_beckerman)
Dear Co-op Power Members and Supporters,
Join us Tues., Aug 3rd, 11 am, for the Grand Groundbreaking for Northeast Biodiesel at our land in the Greenfield [MA] Industrial Park - Silvio Conte Drive (at the end of the road near the Coke plant).
After five years of development, everything has finally aligned so that we can build our recycled vegetable oil biodiesel plant and make a clean fuel alternative to diesel fuel that can be used in any diesel engine or oil heat system.
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| gmoke :: Northeast Biodiesel Groundbreaking August 3, Greenfield, MA |
What this means for you and for Co-op Power:
1.) We're turning our member equity into a business that will give us a clean energy product many members can use directly to fuel their vehicles or oil heat systems.
2.) If you're a member, you'll get more benefits from Co-op Power in the next three years. We'll be earning profits that can be used to develop products that everyone can use.
3.) We will have more assets that can be used to leverage other community-based business development projects in your community.
4.) We're moving Co-op Power from a good idea to a cooperative that can really make a difference. We'll be able to move out of start-up and into full operations with paid staff, benefits that Co-op Power members can use on a regular basis, and enhanced technical assistance to community-based business development
projects, all ready to support the hundreds of Co-op Power volunteers working on justice and sustainability in their communities.
Want to help with the Celebration?
Let me know if you can help with the groundbreaking. Bring something to share for lunch if you can. Or, let me know if you're a musician with some acoustic music to help us celebrate. (lynn@cooppower.coop)
Directions from Route 91 to Northeast Biodiesel:
Take Exit 27 to Route 2 toward Boston. Travel 2.2 miles.
Turn Left onto Adams Road. Travel .3 miles.
Turn Left onto Silvio Conte Drive. Travel .6 miles.
Northeast Biodiesel will be on your left, just before the Coke plant.
Instructions for a GPS to Northeast Biodiesel:
We don't have a street address yet, but the Coke plant is 180 Silvio Conte Drive, Greenfield, MA 01301. You'll see us on the left just before you get there.
Hope to see you there if you have some flexibility during the work day!
Looking forward to talking with you more about what this means for you, for Co-op Power, for our community.
In cooperation,
Lynn
PS Please note. We've heard that there is some confusion about our biodiesel plant. A biodiesel plant is NOT a wood burning biomass plant. The biodiesel plant will use a chemical process to change recycled vegetable oil to biodiesel and glycerine. Please help us spread the word! This is simply a good thing.
Lynn Benander
Manager, Co-op Power
413-552-6446 (cell)
413-772-8898 (office)
lynn@cooppower.coop
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Then and Now
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Then...
"Last year Evergreen, a Massachusetts company, agreed to establish their first-ever United States based manufacturing facility here in Massachusetts. They did so, or are doing so, at Devens. They have now agreed and chosen to triple their size at Devens. Their next phase of expansion, right here in Massachusetts, a signature company in a signature sector, and we congratulate all of the folks at Evergreen and look forward to continuing to work with you...
We made a personal commitment to Evergreen for the sake of Evergreen, but also because we wanted to show that there are ways in which state government, in working together with private industry and with the utility companies, could begin to create a different kind of environment, a different kind of business climate here, to grow that sector, and it is happening. It's happening. Evergreen is one of the most prominent examples, but there are a whole host of examples."
--Governor Deval Patrick, April 7, 2008, boasting about state investment in Evergreen.
and Now...
"Evergreen Solar Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, completing a stunning reversal of fortune for a high-flying alternative-energy company that once seemed to herald a new era for the Massachusetts economy... At its peak, Evergreen employed roughly 900 people locally and attracted more than $50 million in state support, as its stock price soared above $100 a share.
Yesterday, Evergreen's stock closed at 18 cents. The company shuttered its manufacturing plant in Devens earlier this year and now has only 85 employees left. Massachusetts is one of its top creditors, owed $1.5 million in rent."
--Erin Ailworth, Boston Globe, August 16, 2011
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