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Ken Picard’s article on Green Mountain Power CEO Mary Powell [“Green Mountain Powell,” October 12] was a fluff piece glorifying an aggressive, cutthroat capitalist who smiles for the camera while facilitating the destruction of nature for profit. Powell calls GMP “fast, fun and friendly” while slapping lawsuits and restraining orders on people trying to save the mountain they love in Lowell. Wake up, everyone! Utility-scale wind projects are just more greenwashed industrial development, abetted by a complicit media that leads the public into stupefied complacency and blind us to what the corporate exploitation of nature really is: psychopathology. Join us on Lowell! Suzanna Jones Walden
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Over the past year I have seen Green Mountain Power and its CEO, Mary Powell, in the media a lot, but not until your “Green Mountain Powell” [October 12] story have all the pieces of the company’s success been so clear to see. Obviously, Powell deserves a ton of credit for all that she has accomplished since joining GMP in 1998. She has displayed the type of leadership we can only hope for from the rest of corporate America. The fact that the company’s headquarters were restructured to be more inclusive and less lavish speaks volumes about her business ethics — ethics that are seen far too
infrequently in our country’s current corporate culture. It also appears as though the staff at GMP is following her lead. The response to the very small but vocal minority objecting to the wind project in Lowell has been much more professional than the opponents’ use of personal attacks on Mary. It’s fair to say that Annette Smith and Lukas Snelling could learn a thing or two about real leadership from Powell. It just seems to me that she has a keen eye for making a good deal and knowing what the majority of Vermonters support, whether it be Kingdom Community Wind, the merger with Central Vermont Public Service, or the favorable contracts she negotiated with Hydro-Québec and Seabrook that will help keep utility rates low for businesses in our state. We should consider ourselves lucky to have such a well-run company in the Green Mountain State.
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