Wind Siting Hearing Replayed on Local Access Stations| 09:44AM / Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The county's four community-access cable stations will begin airing video of a public hearing on the proposed Wind Energy Siting Reform Act, held Sept. 7 at Jiminy Peak. The act would expedite development of wind plants throughout the commonwealth.
The hearing was convened by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, of which state Sen. Benjamin Downing, D-Pittsfield, is co-chair. Thirty-six people, most of them from communities in Western Massachusetts, testified during the six-hour session.
Cable stations will air the testimony in three 2-hour parts. Serving South County, CTSB's Channel 18 will screen the hearing's first part on Friday, Oct. 21, at 8:30 p.m. The second part will show on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m., and the third on Sunday, Oct. 23, also at 7 p.m. The same schedule will be repeated the following weekend, on Oct. 28, 29 and 30.
In Pittsfield, Dalton and Richmond, the first 2-hour part will air Friday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. on CityLink, PCTV's Government Access Channel 18. It will run there again on Saturday, Oct. 22, at both 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Watch listings for initial air times of the other two parts.
In North County, NBCTC's Government Access Channel 17 will show the first part on Friday, Oct. 21, at 8:30 p.m.; the second part on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m.; and the third on Sunday, Oct. 23, also at 7 p.m. In addition, the entire hearing will run without interruption on Thursday, Oct. 20, and again Thursday, Oct. 27, from 8 to 2 p.m. on each day.
In Williamstown, check www.willinet.org for updated scheduling.
Viewers are encouraged to submit their own testimony electronically or by mail, and the committee's e-mail address appears at the end of each part of the video.
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