Thursday, December 19, 2013

Lung Association urges ‘no’ for biomass plant

The American Lung Association has come out against the proposed wood-fired power plant in North Springfield.
http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131219/NEWS02/712199893/1003

12 comments :

  1. "Not in Our Town"....growth, development, expansion, forward progress...

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  2. If the Town tax laws of Springfield had better incentives for bringing in NEW Companies to fill vacant lots and buidings, maybe they would come here and with them NEW jobs. But unfortunately THE TOWN wants to TAX companies to death. Hence no "good" company wants to set up shop here. Some get rich scheme BioMass company that would employ a few and take up a huge parcel of land is not the answer. The answer is the TOWN of Springfield has to have the sight to see that lower taxes on companies would bring them in and new families who came along would contribute to the tax base.

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  3. I don't believe the biomass people were sincere as they have forgone $40,000,000 funding. Any group that was serious would not have thrown that away. Just another case of a few sham artists dangling carrots in front of us, and helping to stir the pot here. But I'm sure the Nimby's will be celebrating victory soon enough.

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  4. ALA is against breathing too.

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  5. Concern for damage to the public's health by the biomass plant has met with deafening silence from the local medical professionals. Whatever happened to medical ethics?

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  6. How many people have gotten lung disease or other health problems from biomass burning in New England?
    Joe Zorzin
    "forester in MA for 40 years"

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    1. Funny! MA stop allowing plants like this to be built years ago. Say...didn't you used to shill for the tobacco industry? Spreading stories about how cigarettes don't cause cancer while even a fool knew they did. How did that turn out?

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    2. You've got to be kidding. You really believe smoking causes cancer? Oh yea,,Santa is coming too.

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    3. Santa was coming for the builders of this pollution plant with that 40 million tax credit and power rates subsidized by the tax payers. A plant that would be spewing carcinogenic compounds(known to cause cancer) at a greater rate across the globe than a proportionate coal burning plant. Cough, cough, wheeze, sniff, sniff.

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    4. You mean carcinogenic compounds cause cancer? That's like saying,,,moist compounds are found to be wet...lol.

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  7. Simple solution for the NIMBYs: If the plant IS BUILT, then JUST HOLD YOUR BREATH!

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