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