From:                                         PLPARE <PLPARE@protonmail.com>

Sent:                                           Friday, June 7, 2019 1:26 PM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     Comments on proposed RPS Class I and RPS Class II Regulations

 

TO:  John Wassam

         Department of Energy Resources

         Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

FROM:  Patrice L. Pare'

              Chicopee, MA. 01020

 

DATE:  June 7, 2019

 

SUBJECT:  Comments on proposed RPS Class I and RPS Class II Regulations

 

Dear Mr. Wassam:

 

I am writing to you today to express my opposition to the proposed RPS regulations and to request that you extend the deadline for comments on same.

 

As a taxpayer, I oppose providing tax subsidies to wood- and garbage-burning incinerators. Subsidies for renewable energy credits should be given to only clean forms of energy that will not release more carbon into the atmosphere, such as wind or solar.  We are in a perilous situation in regards to climate change and need to be doing all that we can to combat it.  Biomass incineration will set us back rather than move us forward.  And the use of trucks to transport what is to be burned will also increase emissions that will worsen the atmosphere.

 

Incineration is bad for our health.  Burning wood releases particulate matter.   If the proposed regulations go through, it will allow for a biomass plant to be built in Springfield where asthma rates are already high.  Poor air quality will result in adults losing time at work due to their own health problems as well as health problems experienced by their children.  This can lead to loss of income and higher health costs for people who can least afford it.  Incinerators would never be built in high-income communities, only low-income communities.  They should not exist in any community!  As a resident of Chicopee, I would be impacted by what leaves a smoke stack in Springfield.   

 

The residents of Massachusetts need more time to review these regulations and to submit comments.  Please extend the deadline.

 

Thank you,

Patrice Pare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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