From: Steven Botkin <sdbotkin@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 12:08 PM
To: RPS, DOER (ENE)
Subject: Opposition to rollback of biomass RPS
Dear
John Wassam,
I
oppose the proposed changes in the Renewable Portfolio Standard for biomass.
The climate crisis is happening now. This is not a distant future. The evidence coming in is more clear every day.
Greenhouse
gases are radically changing the climate around the world, threatening life as
we know it. Burning trees for energy increases greenhouse gas emissions and
destroys forest ecosystems that protect and sustain us.
Corporate
interests continue to manipulate and lie about these facts as they pursue
resource extraction for short-term economic gain. Continuing to strip the land
of resources reflects relationships of colonial ownership that have increasingly
desecrated and dominated this land. Social inequities of race and class protect
people with privilege from the most harmful effects of these violations, and
put others in harm’s way.
Pelham, Massachusetts