To Our public servants in DOER, and in the Baker administration, This is your notice that you are heretofore advised. Your continued attempts to undermine the clearly stated direction and guidance of the Inhabitants of Massachusetts is Unconstitutional, and malfeasant. Your actions constitute a direct and intentional violation of your sworn oath of office as public servants of the People of Massachusetts, as per articles 4 and 5 of Part the First, a Declaration of Rights, of the Constitution of the Copmmonwealth of Massachusetts. You are further in direct malfeasance of the Global Warming Solutions Act. You are denying, and distorting all current forest health science, while promulgating falsified, distorted science data, solely for the purpose of allowing private industry to expropriate and embezzle the assets of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The entirety proposal is corrupt, and has been duly noted as such by the People.

 

The alarming proposed changes to RPS Class I, especially the changes that reduce or eliminate the core requirements of the 2012 RPS bioenergy rules, place us on a compelled course of human extinction, covertly engineered by private commercial interests. This is a direct betrayal of your one and only lawful mandate, which is to serve the Greater Good of the People of this Commonwealth. Furthermore, this attempt to cast aside science-based rules which the Massachusetts People agreed to in a prior contract with you, violates that contract, and attempts to replace it with a forced solution to which WE Do Not Consent. This therefore is not a valid contract, as it knowingly seeks to abort the Consent of the Living Men and Women of this Commonwealth.

 

in particular the DOER plans reductions in facility efficiency criteria, increases in the allowed variety of wood, including whole trees, increasing from 20 years to 30 years the timeframe for plants to show a net reduction in GHG emissions relative to fossil fuels, calculations of lifecycle CO2 emissions that ignore fossil fuels used in harvesting, processing and transport, elimination of requirements for liquid fuels to show a real reduction in GHG’s, and the removal of Massachusetts-specific forest harvesting criteria.

 

The Baker administration is aware that the climate crisis is real, is urgent, and that the time window for dramatic action is just a few years. These proposals are entirely contrary to the public good, contrary to my health and especially the health of children and older adults. This therefore is a knowingly, and willfully malfeasant violation of this Governor's SWORN oath of office.

 

Clean energy does not come out of a smokestack. Burning wood is a highly emitting source of energy, more polluting than coal, and the there is no longer time to grow new forests to recapture the emissions, and moreover living forests each year sequester 30% of the

9 gigatons of CO2 that humans emit annually. Half of all the carbon sequestered in all the forests in the world is in the 1% of largest diameter trees in every forest.

 

You are attempting to justify this corrupt ecocidal course of action by distorted science statements that have been clearly proven false, and are dishonest. We have not yet recovered from the deforestation of all of Massachusetts in 1850. We realized then the error of that disastrous mistake and swore never to do anything so stupid again, and yet here you are trying to commit the same disastrous crime all over gain. The 1953 USDA study, "Soil and Civilization" clearly documents that deforestation causes desertification, and that every place there has been a major civilization, there is now a desert. This plan engineered by private interests, is on track to turn our entire planet into a desert. And for WHAT!?!? So you guys can all keep your golden parachutes and retirement funds, while your children and grandchildren are subjected to forced extinction by your corrupt hands.

 

Furthermore, health impacts are an immediate consequence of wood burning.  Again you are proposing action that intentionally contravenes your oath to act for the Greater Common Good of This Commonwealth and Its Inhabitants, who will be subjected to increased health care costs and reductions in quality of life due to illness caused by particulate matter pollution, WHICH, by the way, is a violation of the Clean Air Act.

 

You are hereby ordered to withdraw the proposed eligibility changes to RPS Class I and Class II, to which We Do Not Now, nor have We EVER consented. You are hereby Notified that your restored correct adherence to our Constitutional Frame of Government,  and your accountability SOLELY to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts is a mandatory and lawfully REQUIRED obligation. Your continued knowing wilful obstruction of our Constitutional framework, and in particular, Article 7 of our Declaration of Rights is a criminal act. This is your Notice to cease and desist all further corrupt activities.

 

Sincerely,

Lisa Hoag

Inhabitant of Massachusetts