From: Andy Oram <andyo@praxagora.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 5:25 AM
To: RPS, DOER (ENE)
Subject: Ecological damage from biomass
I am writing to oppose changes to the Renewable Portfolio Standard Class I (225 CMR 14.00) and Class II (225 CMR 15.00). They violate the law by reducing support for low-carbon energy sources such as solar and wind and replacing them with biomass, a carbon-producing source. The law was meant to reduce carbon in the atmosphere by promoting solar and wind, which will be plentiful if you adopt common-sense policies to promote them. I am incensed that, instead of doing your job here, you are protecting and promoting coal-fired plants by allowing them to take a precious resource, our nation's trees, and put more carbon in the atmosphere by burning them. The claims of the biomass industry to be "green' have been thoroughly discredited, and the damage they have done is well documented. They are devastating natural forests will boosting climate change.
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Andy
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