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