March 28, 2024

Seekonk needs a New Pro-Active Water Commissioner!

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It’ amazing, how a chance encounter with another person can change your mind! I recently spoke with Jim and Sue Kimmel, owners of the Good Seed Natural Foods Store located at138 Central Avenue. They educated me about dangers of the proposed Rehoboth Natural Gas Compressor Station project.

I’ll admit feeling ambivalence and uncertainty about this issue. I don’t live in Rehoboth or use liquid natural gas (LNG) to heat our home. They gave me a brochure which convinced me that WE MUST UNITE AGAINST THIS COMPRESSOR STATION PROJECT.

Being a practical person, I weigh the pros and cons of every decision before action. This brochure explained your families will enjoy no benefits from this station, and will only SUFFER substantial RISKS to your drinking water.

Rehoboth and Seekonk residents use well water from the SAME underground aquifer. This shared body of water does not recognize any boundary lines. Hazardous, cancerous, LNG chemicals will pollute this aquifer and poison us, unless we fight.

It’s only a question of when this pipeline will leak into our drinking water. Your home’s value is almost worthless without a clean water supply. Your safety and property’s dollar value is in danger.

Energy companies have a terrible record when it comes to protecting our environment. The Exxon Valdez supertanker oil spill, BP Oil rig Gulf of Mexico spill, and Flint Michigan tragedy comes to mind. These environmental disasters all could have been prevented.

Educate yourself on this issue by visiting www. NoRehobothCompressor.com. If you give a damn about your children and community’s quality of life, YOU need to get involved.

I pledge to do everything I can to prevent this LNG Compressor Station from being built. I oppose this for health and safety reasons. The gas traveling thru our Towns will be primarily exported overseas with no local benefits. You get the risks with no rewards!

I’m a candidate for public office and respectfully ask for your vote in the April election. I will fight to protect us from corporate development threats to your health and welfare.

I offer you fair, ethical, honest, accountable, and transparent behavior. I will be approachable, a team player, and willing to listen to everyone’s position. I have many positive relationships with business, community, and government leaders.

My previous four years on Seekonk’s Board of Health has been a valuable training experience. I have tremendous respect for the current Water Commissioners and Superintendent and look forward to learning from them. I will lead by example and create consensus decisions. My qualifications will be presented in next month’s issue.

Thanks for your consideration.

Douglas Brown LPN, Candidate for Water Commissioner

(508) 761-7289

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