Regarding a Thursday letter questioning the stateâ??s Charter Street Biomass Plant, this plant will transform our energy and environmental landscape…Just last week 25 volunteers ranging from UW-Madison students to state agency leaders successfully planted 3,000 willow trees in what had been a marginal-yield cornfield…We endured the blazing sun to plant these trees for biomass because the buffer will reduce flood waters, provide cleaner lakes, fuel and feed to local farmers, habitat for people and wildlife, and give us cleaner energy than coal. The $275 million Charter Street investment will create projects like this all over southern Wisconsin and create new, needed jobs.
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