Dear President Fiordaliso and BPU team,

We were very disappointed and alarmed to learn from multiple BPU staff, outside participants and NJ Spotlight yesterday that BPU held a large yet secret “stakeholder” meeting at the War Memorial this Wednesday, October 16th that specifically excluded many key stakeholders on critical aspects of the Energy Master Plan (EMP), specifically modeling results from the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP), the principal driver of the final EMP.

We had believed the EMP process would be open, transparent and inclusive. This stakeholder process that has deliberately excluded many groups, not just ours, that have been active participants not only in this EMP process but also in those conducted by at least the past 5 Administrations undermines the credibility of the BPU on such an important issue.

Given BPU’s refusal to respect repeated requests from the public and diverse stakeholders ranging from the undersigned to business interests to make public any info. on this over a year of public process that ended a month ago, it is especially unacceptable for BPU to share aspects of this selectively and withhold it from the larger engaged public, even for a short period of time, whether it occurrred Wednesday or over the summer.

Accordingly, we respectfully request, in fact demand, that you: (1) make public the information shared Wednesday including the PowerPoint presentation, who attended and who was invited by cob this Monday, October 21st; and (2) schedule and conduct a more inclusive meeting by this coming Friday, October 25th on the same subject, with those not having been invited Wednesday given preference for comment and questions.

Sincerely,

The Empower NJ Steering Committee

John Reichman, BlueWaveNJ

Amy Goldsmith, Eric Benson and David Pringle, Clean Water Action

Tracy Carluccio, Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Ken Dolsky, Don’t Gas the Meadowlands

Matt Smith, NJ Food and Water Watch

Jeff Tittel, NJ Sierra Club