Hello All, Sorry if you've seen this already. I tried sending last night but
potentially lost the message. Bob Leverett told me that there might be some
interest here at ENTS to learn more about the five biomass plants proposed for
western Massachusetts and to help defeat one currently before the Greenfield
Zoning Board of Appeals. These five plants will impact our already dismally
rated air quality and they could decimate our forests. There simply is not
enough "sustainably cut wood." Three of these plants would provide less than
1% of MA energy needs and pour hundreds of thousands of tons per year of carbon
dioxide and other pollutants into our already saturated atmosphere. Yet, these
plants are going through without MEPA review with the help of our tax dollars
because this is considered a renewable energy and carbon neutral. Please take
a look at the info at http://www.massenvironmentalenergy.org for more info on
this issue. If you would like to help defeat the Greenfield plant, I invite
you to take a look at http://www.greenfieldbiomass.info for more information on
how you can help locally. Letters to the editor of the Greenfield Recorder
before the June 15 ZBA meeting would also be most helpful in educating a
confused Greenfield citizens about the downsides of biomass because It seems
that most elected officials and the editor of the Greenfield Recorder are for
this plant. Letters to state and federal representatives would be helpful too.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get back to me. Thanks for
your review, Lee Ann Warner
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