From:                                         Ingrid Geis <idgeis@comcast.net>

Sent:                                           Sunday, July 21, 2019 5:40 PM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     Wood Burning Does Not Belong In Our Renewable Portfolio Standard

 

Dear Mr. Wassam,

 

I am writing you as a concerned resident of Massachusetts.  I have just learned that the Baker Administration is trying to change the definition of renewable energy to include and incentivize wood-burning power plants.  We have only a decade to try and reverse our CO2 emissions situation and avert climate disaster – we should be doing everything in our power to move towards clean energy.  Burning wood is not clean energy:  it not only leads to pollution and increased particulates in the air but it also involves destroying trees that are 20-30 years old which absorb tremendous amounts of CO2.  This proposal is a double negative!  Please do not allow this to happen.  Massachusetts deserves better than this.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Ingrid Geis

Winchester, MA

 

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