Industrial wood burning in Greenfield will release large amounts of carbon now locked in our forested landscape into the atmosphere. It will encourage the clear cutting of both state and private lands.

The wood fiber trade is already highly developed. See what a trade journal has to say about biomass burners:
http://www.risiinfo.com/technologyarchives/risi-wood-biomass-market-report-woodfiber-supply.html
Here's a link to a report on how biomass will affect Western Mass forests:
http://www.maforests.org/Biomess.pdf

& Water-Related Air Quality Impacts from the Proposed Pioneer Renewable Energy Power Plant (PRE)

The PRE power plant will be the largest industrial water user in Greenfield. This is because it will run at approximately 23% energy efficiency, with about 77% of the energy from the burning of fuel being lost as waste heat . At a time of heightened awareness of the need for energy conservation, this intentional inefficiency is appalling, unacceptable, and should be illegal.

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If built, the PRE biomass burner will emit 1,000,000,000 (one billion) pounds per year of CO2, as well as other greenhouse gases.

The idea that carbon produced by "renewable" sources, such as our forested landscape, is somehow O.K. to burn and send into the atmosphere, is based on now-discredited models and calculations from the 1990's.

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