Letter: Power plant certainly isn’t a good neighbor

Wednesday, June 20, 2001 | 9:06 a.m.

I am a wheelchair-bound retiree who came to Laughlin on the advice of my physician to improve my health. I have a respiratory condition known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

I feel that my health has been compromised by these consistent rolling opacity variances being granted to the Mohave Generating Station. I moved here understanding that they were allowed a limit of 30 percent opacity and that they would shortly install modern pollution control devices that would only improve the air quality. Instead of being a good neighbor and installing those devices, they have only asked on several occasions to be allowed to pollute the air even more.

I am glad that some members of the Town Board are willing to take the heat in order to reflect our views on the generating station. For too long, decisions have been made behind closed doors by business interests without any regard for Laughlin residents. I hope the Town Board has the courage to stand up to this pressure from the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce.

In all my professional years prior to retirement, I never saw a Chamber of Commerce like this one, whose board of directors has unposted meetings behind closed doors. What kind of an elitist group excludes even its own members from being present to voice their opinions on agenda items? What do they fear?

All other chambers I have ever seen were totally open to their own members and they would have never dreamed of taking a position on an issue as important as this one without polling their own members first. Shame on you big shots!

We don't want more pollution from that plant!

NANCY MOORE