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Citizens and commissioners raise safety, reliability and local-control concerns over battery storage and Campbell plant plans
Summary
A public commenter asked the board to place new "Save the Campbell" resolutions on a future agenda and urged scrutiny of planned lithium-ion battery projects; commissioners later discussed a separate proposed battery storage site in Blendon Township and local safety and landowner conflicts.
A Georgetown Township volunteer who identified himself as Joseph Parnell McCarter urged the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 26 to put a new round of “Save the Campbell” resolutions on a future agenda, arguing that large lithium-ion battery storage projects and an aggressive net-zero agenda pose risks to grid reliability, cost and environmental safety.
“More and more Ottawa County citizens are coming to realize just how bad the net 0 agenda is for us, not only in terms of grid reliability and cost, but also…
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