On March 28 voters in Perry will make a crucial decision.

Some people planning to make a lot of money for themselves are waging a very clever campaign to bring a liquefied natural gas terminal to this now beautiful and unspoiled area in eastern Washington County. They’ve conned many trusting people here into believing that there would be no undesirable effects, only riches for all.

If this were the truth, why not build it near the market instead of having to pump the gas through hundreds of miles of pipeline?

Why not build it on a more efficient manmade island – like the one in the Gulf of Mexico – in well-sheltered Long Island Sound, or Nantucket Sound? Because the voters in those areas would not allow it. They want the gas but they want to dump the real dangers and the nuisances of the terminals and tankers onto someone else, just as they want to export their garbage.

If someone here craves to live near an LNG plant there’s one in Everett, Mass. It would be far more rational to move to Everett than to bring that disastrous mess here.

Oliver Holmes

Eastport