Company given everything it wanted
In response to David Singer’s Feb. 29 article in the Observer-Reporter on the decision by Smith Township to move forward with a cryogenic natural gas processing plant, I want to make a few points.
Smith Township’s supervisors, along with its consultants, approved an industrial operation in an agricultural area without all the facts and without any benefits to the community.
At the very least, I believe the board could have considered requiring Energy Transfer Company (ETC), who will be building the proposed plant, to pay a host fee to the Burgettstown Area School District. Host fees can be help compensate communities that bear the burdens of coexisting with a hazard or inconvenience. Other communities have done this. Why didn’t Smith Township?
It appears the board handed ETC everything it wanted. ETC should have been made to comply with at least some of the very real concerns and requests of residents.
Cathy Lodge
Bulger