From:                                         John Galt <john.galt5@verizon.net>

Sent:                                           Saturday, June 22, 2019 11:44 AM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     Bury BIOMASS

 

I am opposed to the changes that the DOER is proposing to loosen the regulations on subsidies for burning wood and trash. Massachusetts taxpayers should not be forced to pay for subsidizing?? businesses whose activities will increase atmospheric carbon dioxide and increased particulate pollution. Now that you have already given Tim Crane 2 million dollars to start a wood chip business in Dalton, I would favor giving him enough further economic incentive to simply BURY all his wood chips without drying them and limit his source of wood to true trash wood. Buried chips are truly sequestered carbon without the need to burn them and wait 80 years for young trees to suck up the carbon dioxide produced. We don't have 80 years to wait.

 

 

OPPOSE changes to the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). DOER is proposing to loosen science-based regulations on subsidies for burning wood and trash - forcing the public to pay for??increased carbon emissions and increased pollution. Despite years of opposition and protests the new regulations pave the way for a biomass power plant in Springfield, an environmental justice community and the Asthma Capital of the United States. More inform

 

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