Fracked gas is bad for our health and environment, as is trash and wood buring

So when Gov. Gas isn't busy further polluting the Basin, he's busy on the other side of the state in another environmental justice zone. This Boston Globe article - In the nation’s asthma capital, plans to burn wood for energy spark fury - is a couple of months old, but we bring it up because burning wood and trash without benefit of scrubbers and filters is...well...really awful. And using trees for energy is...well...insane. And the climate bill currently in conference will consider trash and wood as "renewable" under the Renewable Portfolio Standard of the Dept. of Energy Resources (DOER). Hearings were held over a year ago on this and many came to speak about how crazy this was. All on the deaf ears of the Baker Administration.

We're all NOT in the same boat. Some of us, like Baker, are in yachts. Others, like us, are in the leaking dinghy.

"Despite local protests and opposition from nearly all city councilors, the plant’s prospects were given a boost when the Baker administration last year proposed to alter rules that designate woody biomass as a form of renewable energy. The draft rules would make developers eligible for valuable financial incentives, potentially saving Palmer millions of dollars a year."

"Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America last year ranked the Springfield metropolitan area as having the nation’s highest per capita prevalence of asthma and asthma-related emergency room visits, which they attributed to the city’s pollution, its location in a valley, and factors such as poverty and high pollen counts." (The Boston Globe)

Read more here: The Boston Globe - In the nation’s asthma capital, plans to burn wood for energy spark fury (link)