From:                                         Alvin Blake <alvinblake@aol.com>

Sent:                                           Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:43 AM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     changes to RPS Class1

 

Dear DOER,

 

I am opposed to the proposed changes to RPS Class1 with particular regard to the changes in the core requirements of the 2012 RPS bioenergy rules.

 

My opposition to such changes runs very deeply because we are facing a Planetary Emergency. All life on the planet is is now being  degraded by every addition to the content of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And culling forests to produce bioenergy would be doubly wrong/negative in that it would not be carbon neutral for 30 years (i.e. it would reduce carbon sequestration at the same time adding to the planet’s carbon load for decades).

To put it bluntly, wood burning bioenergy would accelerate the burden, suffering, and extinction events now facing all life as a consequence of the Climate Crisis.

 

Lastly, I are writing not only in behalf of our grandchildren (and great grandchildren to be) but also in recognition that future generations are no less our neighbors than those who live next door.

 

Al Blake

 

Becket