Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan reiterates the call to get a stalled turbine project off Public School System property.<\/p>\n
The dysfunctional windmills at Saipan Southern High School are an \u201ceyesore\u201d and create noise that generates \u201ca lot of complaints from the community around it,\u201d according to Board of Education chair Herman Guerrero.<\/p>\n
Sablan said the project was originally a $10-million renewable energy project for public schools.<\/p>\n
While other projects have gone forward, the project at Saipan Southern High appears to be the \u201conly defective one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey built on our property because we endorsed non-renewable energy,\u201d she told Saipan Tribune. \u201cIf they install something that doesn\u2019t work\u201d then they should \u201cget if off our property.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company working on the project had missed the March 31, 2015, deadline. According to the commissioner, this was one of the several project extensions given to the company.<\/p>\n
Guerrero said around that time that if the company is \u201cnot going to work [on it], then perhaps they need to remove the equipment from our property, because it\u2019s just going to create problems for us later on.\u201d<\/p>\n
As reported in 2011, the Division of Energy gave PSS approximately $2.4 million from the $6.5 million it received from the U.S. Department of Energy for Renewable projects for the completion of this project.<\/p>\n
The project was awarded to Pacific Green Integrated Technology Inc. and Pacific Wind & Solar LLC in September 2010.<\/p>\n
PSS is not the expenditure or contracting authority for the project; it\u2019s the Division of Energy.<\/p>\n
Both Sablan and Guerrero said the Attorney General\u2019s Office is looking into the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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