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THE ISSUE: The city’s proposal to construct a new power plant.
OUR VIEW: Now’s the time to get involved in the civic process and have your voice be heard.
Knowing federal regulations will shut down its coal-fire plant within five years, Logansport Municipal Utilities searched for alternatives to become energy independent. That brought the city to consider a project to generate electricity from a relatively new development in the energy industry.
And now, a proposed new plant would be powered by refuse-derived fuel pellets. In hopes of making that plant a reality, the city is working with a group of about 20 consultants who specialize in areas like engineering, utilities, environmental regulations, power generation, law and economics, among others.
If that sounds expensive, it’s probably because it is. The project carries a $600 million price tag, and the city would prefer to finance it through a public-private partnership.
That’s a lot to take in. We know it’s a complicated matter. We don’t know about you, but we’ve still got more questions than answers.
But as the team of consultants continues to work behind closed doors before releasing its findings to the public, the residents of Logansport can still find their voice in the conversation.
Talk to your elected leaders about your concerns. Send your questions to LMU; they’re even inviting you to do so on the city’s website. You can send questions to hartman.lmu@frontier.com. The site says they’ll present the questions to the consultants, and it promises answers.
We invite the community to use this page to keep the conversation going. Send us a Letter to the Editor with your questions, comments or concerns about the project. Are you for it? Are you against it? Do you not understand it?
You may think you don’t know enough about it to have the right to be involved, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s your city. Your future. Get involved however you can.
There are important decisions going to be made soon in Logansport. Those decisions should be made in front of a crowded room of involved citizens.
Even if you’ve never been one to get involved in the civic process — or even pay attention to it — now is a great time to start.
We’ll be there at 5 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Logansport City Council meeting to hear the consultants’ presentation to the board.
We hope to see you there.
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OUR VIEW: Find your voice on power plant
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