Should gas motors be allowed on Nutting Lake?

A petition by select Billerica citizens to change the current bylaws to allowing gas motorboats on Nuttings lake up to 30-horsepower motors is being presented before the Billerica Town Board at the Annual Fall Town Meeting (Tuesday Oct 7, 2008 at 7:00pm).

Some people believe that we should allow people to put jet skis and boats in Nutting Lake. We should allow taxpayers of Masachusetts to bring in their recreational watercrafts and enjoy the lake!

Others believe that the lake is way to small to have boats and jet skis flying around. They leak fuel, disturb the wildlife and create an annoying amount of noise pollution! They banned them years ago for this reason. If we as community truly believe in being a green community, why would we allow this? It’s not good!

How do you feel?

Please

Billerica Power Plant

As a town, you want to have businesses move in to provide jobs, and to pay taxes. The best senerio is to have a business that pays a lot of taxes but has little impact on the community. This power plant seems to be a perfect tenant. In fact, you probably won’t even see a car at it.

On the flip side, we do have residents that live near there and they are concerned with soot and potentionally poisonous vapors being sent into the air, out a smokestack. How will it effect them and their children? The power company says it’s safe. Agent orange was safe too, wasn’t it? Once this is built, there will be nothing we can do about it. How do you feel about it ?