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Alerts and Events: Massachusetts
These postings are provided to help publicize and provide examples of the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
Action alerts, Environment, Information, Law, Massachusetts, Wildlife •
Source: Helen Parker
Next steps on the Massachusetts Wind Energy Siting Reform Act
An action alert came through from statewide and regional groups this morning. This relates to “public process” and takes us right back to August of ’09 when Vineyard elected officials unanimously expressed their opposition to the Oceans Management Act, which was, nevertheless and despite numerous citizen and federal governmental agency substantive criticisms, passed in December ’09. Background: The Oceans Act of 2008, followed by the 2009 Ocean Management Act, brought us to the Wind Energy Siting Reform Act [S.2260], currently . . .
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Information, Massachusetts •
Source: Barbara Durkin
The Cape needs your help
We are all in a battle to preserve the historic integrity of the Cape and islands. Tribal rights to Nantucket Sound deemed eligible to listing to the National Register of Historic Places is a key issue under consideration by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. The single most important comment you can make to assert the value of the historic integrity of Nantucket Sound exists before 5 PM tomorrow. This issue parallels your successful effort to retain the historic character . . .
Greeny Grinch Turbines
This is a letter/poem in opposition to the colossal wind turbine situation that is currently plaguing the great state of Massachusetts … all the way from the Berkshires to the Cape and Islands! They are setting new laws and precedents that will affect the ENTIRE U.S. and beware, this battle will eventually happen in YOUR own backyard too. Sooner than you think. It is spreading like wildfire. Greeny Grinch Turbines! You’re a mean one, “Greeny Grinch”! … not as environmental . . .
Urgent! — Petition to preserve local control over industrial wind turbine siting
URGENT! – PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION TO PRESERVE LOCAL CONTROL OVER INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINE SITING AT WWW.GREENBERKSHIRES.ORG The governor and legislature are moving quickly to pass a bill to promote industrial wind development in every community within the Commonwealth. It targets the Berkshires and Highlands of western Massachusetts, and the coastal areas. The legislation, titled the Wind Energy Siting Reform Act, will remove local zoning control and veto power over onshore wind power plants of 2 megawatts (MW) or more. This . . .
Bald eagles face redoubled threat
RE: Bald Eagle set to hit milestone: U.S. likely to end endangered symbol, by John Donnelly Dear Mr. Donnelly: I am responding to your contribution in today’s Boston Globe as a citizen concerned about the impending court-ordered deadline that mandates that US Fish and Wildlife make the determination as to the status of our national symbol, the Bald Eagle, and if it should be taken off of the Endangered Species List. The Bald Eagle would accordingly be placed in double . . .
