From: Bambi Good <bambigood@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:57 AM
To: RPS, DOER (ENE)
Subject: Renewable Energy Regulations
Dear John Wassam and staff:
I am lifelong citizen of the Commonwealth and while I follow many issues, I've never before written to an officer of the Commonwealth, but I must speak out about the proposed changes to the Commonwealth's renewable energy regs.
I am aware that our required increase in that part of our electricity that is sold by utilities be renewable, but including wood that will call more smokestack emissions is not warranted. I can understand that cities and towns and private citizens and those that maintain our roads and parks might like a convenient way to dispose of their dead or cut-down trees, but in a 2010 biomass study it was found that such burning is worse in terms of carbon dioxide emission than the energy sources we are all working to keep out of our atmosphere.
I live right outside of Boston proper, but I feel for the people in Springfield and way beyond who are afraid that the Palmer Renewable Energy's proposal could come to fruition and with it emission of particulate matter which will ensure that Springfield remain the asthma capital of the country. Of course, particulate matter knows no borders and will contaminate the entire Connecticut River Valley.
Please find inventive ways to dispose of wood that don't jeopardize the health planetary destruction we are on.
Sincerely,
Bambi Good