I am opposed to the takeover of Aquarion Water Company. I view it as an intrusion of government into the private sector, by operation of statute, not voluntary agreement. The proposal to purchase Aquarion strikes me as an act of government aggression towards an ongoing business concern that has mostly served the town well. A …
April 6, 2019 by Edna English Control of the water resource: WE WON’T have control. The Department of Environmental Protection controls the resource. The Selectmen will control the rates, and ratepayers will lose the protection of the Department of Public Utilities that acts as a consumer protection agency regulating rates, preventing unnecessary expenditures, and enforcing maintenance …
April 6, 2019 by Catherine Salisbury The Hingham Board of Selectmen’s decision to go it alone with regard to Hingham’s statutory option to purchase the assets of Aquarion Water Company is the option that puts Hingham taxpayers at greatest risk. Although it is the expectation that water bill revenues from Hingham, Hull and Cohasset rate-payers will pay off …
April 1, 2019 by Giaff and Alison Ferrante We’re writing to encourage people to go to the April 22 Town Meeting and vote YES to acquire the town water system from Aquarion/Eversource. We’ve lived here since 1987, and 2 of our children and 3 grandchildren live here, so the town’s future means a lot to …
April 1, 2019 by Daniel Miller-Dempsey This week I went to an info session sponsored by https://www.hinghamwater.com with some undecided friends and made the decision to sit back and open my mind. I wanted to hear the information again like I hadn’t had the benefit of hearing it before. I also spent time this past …
“It is an axiom of the Democratic system but in the 1950’s it sometimes appears forgotten by some people that only if full examination of all views is had will the better course be discovered and error exposed.” This statement was made in 1956 by Arthur Whittemore, former Hingham Town Counsel and Moderator, as well …
March 6, 2019 by Laura Burns At Town Meeting on April 22, citizens will vote on whether to buy our private water company from Aquarion/Eversource. There are many compelling reasons to do this- here are just three of them: 1) We should have local control over our own water distribution system; the vast majority …
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