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Blog Description: Michaelann Land is the political and personal blog of a longtime community activist in Springfield Massachusetts. It tracks homelessness, poverty and environmental news in Western Mass and elsewhere, with random bursts of poetry and humor.
Blog Tags: poverty - social justice - homelessness - housing - environment - HUMAN RIGHTS
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I suspect the residents of Springfield think biomass is a dead issue, but we-- Stop Toxic Incineration in Springfield-- continue to take whatever steps necessary to keep Palmer Renewable Energy from constructing s biomass incinerator in Springfield.
We're appealing the Dept. of Environmental Protection's air permit (along with the Toxics Action Center and the Conservation Law Foundation) and preparing a defense in Land Court as a result of the Zoning Board removing the building permit issued to PRE.
But always, in the back of our minds, we've been waiting for the Dept. of Energy Resources to release its new regulations about biomass, and whether the plants proposed in Greenfield, Russell and Springfield will be eligible for the state's subsidy program, the Renewable Energy Credits.
DOER is going to require 50% efficiency to be eligible for RECs, while the proposed plants are struggling to reach even 25% efficiency-- just one of the reasons we oppose these plants.
Keep in mind, however, that Palmer Renewable Energy has said that it doesn't need RECs to operate profitably-- although I'm sure PRE wouldn't turn down the money if eligible. So we can't let our guard down.
Greenfield recorder; By RICHIE DAVIS
Recorder Staff
The
state Department of Energy Resources on Friday released revisions to its
regulations for how Renewable Portfolio Standards would apply to biomass
generating plants.
This set of revisions, which comes almost exactly a
year after draft regulations that were severely criticized as too rigid by
developers of the wood-fired generators, incorporates recommendations made last
June by the state Legislature?s Joint Committee on Telecommunications,
Utilities, and Energy.
The state expects to have a
final regulation in place this summer.
Meg
Sheehan, chairwoman of the Massachusettsbased Stop Spewing Carbon campaign,
called the proposal ?an important step to ensuring that when trees are burned
for energy, it is done in the most efficient way that also preserves our
forests.?
http://www.utilityproducts.com/news/2012/03/11/biomass-blaze-highlights-bizarre-nature-of-renewable-energy.html
On February 27, 120 firemen were rushed to deal with a major incident at Tilbury, east of London, where 6,000 tons of wood pellets had caught fire at what is now ''the world's largest biomass power station''. Until recently Tilbury was one of England's 14 remaining coal-fired power plants. But, attracted by the 100 per cent-plus subsidies we pay to help meet the EU target whereby within eight years, 32 per cent of our electricity must come from ''renewables'', the plant's German owners, RWE, have converted it to burning more than half a million tons of pellets a year, imported from Georgia, US, where the wood is grown and processed.
One problem is that large quantities of green wood are liable to combust, the most likely cause of this fire (the second such in Britain in recent months). Another is that wood generates energy so much less efficiently than coal that the plant's output has fallen from 1,100 megawatts to only 750MW. (However, this is still two-thirds of the power generated on average by all our 3,500 wind turbines combined.)
Rather more serious, though, since the claimed purpose of ''biomass'' is to help reduce Britain's emissions of carbon dioxide, is that the wood actually emits more CO2 for each unit of electricity it produces than the coal it replaced (not to mention all the additional CO2 emitted by processing and shipping it across the Atlantic). This recently led that bizarre body, the Committee on Climate Change, set up to advise the Government under the Climate Change Act, to recommend that biomass power stations should only be permitted to operate if they are fitted with ''carbon capture and storage'', designed to pipe away and bury all the CO2 they emit. So, in order to reduce our CO2 emissions, we subsidise power companies to burn wood which ends up emitting much more CO2 than the fossil fuels it replaces, so that the Government is now told that this should only be allowed if the firms then remove that CO2 by a process so CO2 intensive that it doubles the cost of the electricity, in order to bury it under the sea using technology not yet commercially developed and which, according to various scientific studies, will never work anyway. Yet according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, ''biomass'' is going to be as important to meeting our EU targets as those useless windmills. Thus in every direction do the ''green dreams'' of those who rule us in London and Brussels collide with reality.
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End the Criminalization of Homelessness & Poverty! Join Us!
Monday, April 2, 2012
In Solidarity with the
National Day of Action for the Right to Exist
Court Square, Springfield
Noon: Gather; 12:30: Music, speakers, then MARCH to Governor?s Office, 436 Dwight St. & Mayor?s Office
Why are the shelters full, when everywhere we see empty homes and buildings?
Why is the City of Springfield ignoring the housing needs of half of its people?
OUR DEMANDS:
City: Replace the housing lost in the tornado!
State: Make shelters available to all in need!
Feds: Fund housing, not wars!
For more info,contact: Arise for Social Justice (413)734-4948
Cosponsors so far: Alliance for Peace and Justice, Anti-Racism Ministry Team of the First Congregational Church in Amherst, UCCWM American Friends Service Committee, PV Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Charles Hamilton Houston Inst. For Race & Justice , Community Labor Rebuilding Coalition, Craig?s Place, Fund Our Communities Not War, Grace Church Peace Fellowship, International Alliance of Inhabitants, Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, Mass Coalition for the Homeless, Mass Law Reform Institute, Move On, Occupy Amherst, Occupy Western MA General Assembly, Out Now, Peace Pagoda, Picture the Homeless, Pioneer Valley Chapter of the Green/Rainbow Party, Springfield Bank Tenants Association, Springfield No One Leaves,Survivors Incorporated, UAW Local 2322, Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst Social Justice Committee, Western Mass Jobs with Justice, WRAP
¡Poner fin a la penalización por falta de vivienda y por pobreza!
Día Nacional de Acción por el Derecho a Existir:
Lunes, 2 de abril en Court Square, Springfield
(fecha en caso de lluvia: 4 de abril)
Mediodía: inicio de la recolección
12:30: música, altavoces
Marchar a la Oficina del Gobernador
Marchar a la Oficina del Alcalde
¡Sin vivienda, todos vamos a ser criminales!
Por qué están llenos los refugios para desamparados, cuando en toda parte hay casas y edificios vacíos?
Por qué ignora la ciudade de Springfield las necesidades de la mitad de sus habitantes?
Nuestros exigencias:
La ciudad: Reponga las viviendas perdidas en el tornado!
El estado: Haga que los refugios para desamparados sean disponibles a todos los necesitados!
El gobierno federal: Financie las viviendas, no las guerras!
Contactar Arise for Social Justice (Levántate por la Justicia Social), 413-734-4948
In December of 2010, WMA Jobs with Justice coordinator Jon Weissman sent an email to the Arise list-- did we know that the person who had opened a storefront church only a few doors from Arise was the notorious homophobe and hatemonger Scott Lively? he has never been far from our minds since then, and we continue to organize against his messages of hate.
?Stop the Hate and Homophobia Coalition? Organizes Nationwide Protest Calling for an End to Scott Lively?s Promotion of Hate against the Gay Community Worldwide
What: Action/Rally
When: March 14, 2012pm at 1:30pm
Where: In front of the Federal Building, 300 State Street, Springfield
In early February 2012 the Ugandan government reintroduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB), a.k.a the ?Kill the Gays? bill, legislating draconian measures against its gay community, which continues to include the death penalty for homosexual acts. One week following the reintroduction of this legislation the Ugandan government raided a peaceful gay rights conference causing the sponsor?s leader to go into hiding. The LGBT community of Uganda is under increasing threats of violence, imprisonment and stigma. American evangelical Christians played a rolein stirring the anti-homosexual sentiment that culminated in the initial AHB legislation in Uganda and continues to heightened homophobia in that country today.
Scott Lively was one of three evangelical leaders who presented at a 2009 conference in Kampala, Uganda which resulted in the original Anti-Homosexuality Bill?s introduction just one month later. Scott Lively likened his appearance to ?a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.? From his home base at the Abiding Truth Ministries housed in the Holy Grounds Coffee Shop at 455 State Street inSpringfield MA, Scott Lively?s anti-gay message filled with lies, propaganda and pray-away-the-gay quack science fuels anti-homosexual sentiment worldwide.
The Stop The Hate & Homophobia Coalition had an action against Scott Lively on November 18, 2011 to help educate the people of Springfield, MA about just who Scott lively is. The protest on March 14th is a continuation of that action. National solidarity actions also are scheduled for Kansas City, Washington DC, and Sacramento. We will continue to advocate against the hate and homophobia Scott Lively and others promote until they stop.
The Stop the Hate and Homophobia Coalition was formed in January 2011 upon learning that Scott Lively was living and ministering in Springfield. Lively is president of the Abiding Truth Ministries, which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and he has been running the Holy Grounds Coffee House on State Street, right near Commerce High School. The coalition deplores hateful messages and actions, and calls for community education about the impact of homophobia on our communities, as well as calling for community leaders, neighbors, co-workers, family members, etc. to speak out against homophobia whenever it is perpetrated. The coalition involves a number of community-based organizations, local college professors and students, members of the faith community and individual community members.
Last night I dreamed I was on the Cape in the winter. Mounds of snow were surrounded by elaborate dances of snow particles, which slowed as I approached and began again as I departed. A lightening storm lit the sky, and from each cloud,where a lightening bolt descended, I could see lightening bolts descending as if they were the fires from rocket launches. Very beautiful and scary.
This morning I read that the sun released a large, class X solar flare between 7 pm. and 8 pm. last night. . Scientists say most likely the flare will produce a glancing blow today or tomorrow, rather than hitting the earth straight on. if we're lucky, and the clouds cooperate, we may see the aurora borealis.
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Blog Tags: poverty - social justice - homelessness - housing - environment - HUMAN RIGHTS 
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