06/20/2026
Collecting more signatures outside today at Baker's Dozen from now until 9 am followed by more circulators available to come to you and sign if you'd like. We have a petition to bring this controversial vote to a full day referendum so more people have access to vote on it and to give us more time to get the facts.
To date, the town hasn't shared the lease agreement, official site plans, or the actual RFP with us and they expect you to make a decision on this 20+ year commitment off of a commercialized slideshow and some advertising sound bites.
I've heard them talk very briefly about helping offset our property taxes and some simple math shows that's pennies on the dollar while this developer is making millions and millions to sell energy back to Eversource who sells back to us at the third highest energy costs in the country with public benefits charges on top of that! If that's not bad enough, we have our very own fire chief sending what they expect to be internal emails to the entire department pushing this vote because somewhere he claims he's been told they're getting 10% minimum of this revenue and seemingly already has plans for it despite the town having no public meetings or discussions about this. He also claims there have been discussions about the Selectman's office stating they'll meet with all department heads about spending this money. So what's going to be left for taxpayers? NOTHING
Lots of facts have been shared about what statewide Planning & Zoning commissions say about large commercial solar developments on beautiful land like ours. They widely are against it. Green Teams don't traditionally support this type of development on this type of land, either. Why does ours? Have they been promised things with this money behind closed doors just like the Fire Department has mentioned???
In 2017, the same people spinning a narrative of support on this and trying to strongarm a passing vote on this, were writing letters to the editor against rushing to develop and asking us to consider Pomfret's rural character. What's changed besides the political affiliation of the person pushing it? This land costs us nothing and has paid for itself as you'll see from the 2017 letter to the editor in the comments.
Lastly, what proof is there that we'll get this much money? I've now requested on 3 occasions some actual revenue numbers from Green Skies on other similar projects they've built. I was given a picture of projects with their respective sizes, WITHOUT their revenues. The Board of Selectmen are NOT answering questions despite their advertisements stating otherwise.
We can't vote on something without the facts! Demand answers and time, let all Pomfret residents weigh in on this. The cafeteria only allows 400 people at max capacity and we have a lot more registered voters in town. Do the right thing Pomfret.
