From: Paul L <lauenstein@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 5:05 PM
To: RPS, DOER (ENE)
Subject: no biomass subsidies!
Re:
biomass subsidies
The
IPCC report of 2018 said we have only 12
more years in which to drastically reduce our emissions to keep global
warming under 1.5ºC and avoid the worst consequences of global warming. We have
already used up almost one of those years.
We
must clean up our energy mix, and FAST! The last thing we should be doing is
subsidizing biomass power plants that spew GHG emissions at a rate comparable
to coal, while driving the destruction of our carbon-sequestering forests.
At a
bare minimum, power plants that emit greenhouse gases should not be subsidized.
Every power plant should be required to pay the cost of removing and
sequestering at least as much carbon from the atmosphere as it emits. That
would greatly accelerate the transition to clean energy sources.
Paul
Lauenstein
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