Councillor George Rotondo is enlisting support in Revere for opposition to a proposal coming before the Chelsea city government to place a diesel fired electric plant on a large but polluted parcel of land lying on the edge of the Chelsea River just downwind from Revere – and not too far from a large Chelsea public school complex.
Rotondo has apparently formed an allegiance with a Chelsea councillor and with other environmentalists to stand against the generating plant proposal.
Rotondo sees the plant as not only regressive for Chelsea but also believes this plant will be bad for Revere – at least for the portion of Revere closest to the plant, which is planned to have two smokestacks.
Backers of the plant are asserting that it will actually make the local air quality better as its presence will cause the much larger and dirtier Everett generating plant to run much less.
Chelsea residents are not seeing it this way at all. They say another generating plant for Chelsea is not keeping in form with the new Chelsea rising out of the old.
Hundreds of voices have sounded against this proposal in Chelsea which will place Rotondo in a good position with those people.