COVENTRY LANDFILL GAS TO ELECTRIC PROJECT OPEN HOUSE

Project Participants

Landfill Ownership & Operations

   Casella Waste Management & NEWS-VT

   Sanborn, Head & Associates

Project Financing

   Rural Utilities Service, USDA

   National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation

Plant Construction

Pizzagalli Construction Company & Principal Subcontractors:  Absolute Mechanical, Bates &

Murray, Gravel Construction, Green Mountain Power, HOK Masonry, Inc., Lancaster Tanks

Generating Plant System Design, Operation, & Maintenance

   Innovative Energy Systems

Generation Equipment

   Milton CAT

Project Management & Advisor

   Gordon Deane, Palmer Management Corporation

Landfill Gas & Facility Engineering Consultant

   Dufresne-Henry, Inc.

Electrical Engineering & Environmental Permitting

   E•PRO Consulting

Legal

   Diamond & Robinson, P.C.

   Bernstein, Cushner & Kimmell, P.C.

Power Supply & Project Economics

   LaCapra Associates

Transmision Line Construction & Interconnection

   Vermont Electric Cooperative & Subcontractors:  Bemis Line Construction, Eastern Utilities

   WEC’s Engineering & Operations Personnel

   Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO)

WEC Project Oversight Committee

Barry Bernstein, Board President; Donald Douglas, Treasurer; Avram Patt, General Manager;

Denise Jacques, Director of Administrative Services; Dan Weston, Director of Engineering

 & Operations; John Warshow, WEC Member

Regulatory Review

            Vermont Department of Public Service

            Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

Renewable Energy Certificate Purchasers

            Cape Light Compact

                  A big thank you to all WEC members for your interest and support.

P R O G R A M

Welcome/Introductions        Avram Patt, WEC General Manager Remarks   Senator Vincent Illuzzi   John Casella, Casella Waste Management   Jolinda LaClair, USDA State Director   Barry Bernstein, WEC President   Congressman Bernie Sanders   Governor Jim Douglas Poem—”Needs”    Geof Hewitt, Poet and Co-op Member Official Landfill Gas to Energy Launch Tours of Facility Lunch  (reservations required)    East Side Restaurant, Newport

                                              NEEDS

On a Coventry hillside there’s nestled a landfill,

Or is the hillside the landfill, snuggled into itself?

The relief map is changing, the contours are spreading

As our valleys fill up and our mountains expand

With items we purchased, dragged home “for the children,”

Bagged up two years later and hauled off as trash.

But the stuff in that diaper is nearly worth gold,

The uneaten kiwi that’s starting to mold,

And weeds from our gardens, half licked candy canes

Go into the landfill and come out as methane.

Now methane’s a bad gas to let loose in the air

So most landfills torch it in eternal flares,

What a partial solution, what a waste of the gas!

Enter our Cooperative, eyeing the trash.

We’ve ended dependence on a source that’s not green:

If we’re talking “eternal,” its  waste is obscene.

Members be proud, we voted “yes” to conservation

And took a big step with courageous innovation.

If it’s organic and starting to rot,

Some leftover soup too long in the pot,

Banana peels!  Bananas! Toss organic waste with felicity,

If it makes it to Coventry, it’ll come back as electricity!

With respect for our neighbors and with love for the land,

With respect for ourselves, if that’s not too grand,

We can go even farther, reduce our reliance

On energy eating, greedy appliances.

We’ll consume with care and try to replace

What we are taking from earth’s heart and its face.

There should never be valleys that fill up with trash

Or nukes that go haywire when oil supplies crash,

So we’re making good progress, we have so much to gain

When we cut back our “needs” and make use of methane!

                                                                                        Geof Hewitt

                                                                                        Co-op Member

                                                                                        September 17, 2005