Dear Governor Baker,

I usually vote for Democrats. But I am opposed to the cutting of forests and covering of fields with solar panels and I preferred your caution about the impacts of solar energy in the grid. I am sorry that your DOE is still allowing commercial solar to wipe out our forests.

Living forests sequester CO2. Some call our forests the lungs of the planet. Yet your administration is proposing to sacrifice them while allowing people to postpone the serious conservation that needs to take place. We criticize dictators like Bolsonaro and wag our fingers at them while we behave in a similar manner in Massachusetts.

 

Health impacts are another  immediate consequence of large scale wood burning. The Commonwealth and its citizens cannot afford increased health care costs and reductions in quality of life due to illness caused by particulate matter pollution.

 

I urge you to withdraw the proposed eligibility changes to RPS Class I and Class II.

 

Thank you for your consideration, call me anytime to discuss.

Ellen Anderson former MDC Associate Commissioner 978-724-3537

01366-9729