The coal-burning power station at Mount Tom in Holyoke, Western Massachusetts, generates 146 megawatts of electricity, provides around 50 jobs, and contributes almost $2 million in taxes to the community. But it also dumps over one million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, making our climate less stable and our future less secure.
So we want Mount Tom and the other coal-burning power stations in Massachusetts to repower to cleaner energy. By endorsing the bill we are saying yes to:
a step-by-step approach to switching from coal to cleaner energy by 2020;
aCommunity Repowering Fund to help with the transition away from coal, safeguarding the livelihoods of the people who work in coal-fired power stations and the surrounding communities; and
switchingto natural gas only if the repowered plantemitsas little CO2 aspossible.
It's time to switch from coal to cleaner energy in Massachusetts, and quickly. So we support the Act to Phase Out Coal Burning in Massachusetts and we ask our state legislators to do the same.
Updates
January 13, 2011
I have spent this week drafting formal letters to the members of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications Utilities and Energy to demand a hearing on this bill. We are currently preparing a briefing packet that outlines the economic impact of the proposed Community Repowering Fund for local stakeholders.
6 Comments
Clean air should be a basic right for everyone in MA. Stop the coal burning now.
SO MUCH FILTH COMING OUT OF THOSE STACKS. DO IT FOR THE PLANET.
Switch to gas or renewables immediately. Coal is dead.
It is 2014 we have the technology for solar and wind. Why are we still burning coal???
Living in Holyoke means breathing this smoke every day. My kids have asthma and enough is enough. Get rid of the coal plants.
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The coal-burning power station at Mount Tom in Holyoke, Western Massachusetts, generates 146 megawatts of electricity, provides around 50 jobs, and contributes almost $2 million in taxes to the community. But it also dumps over one million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, making our climate less stable and our future less secure.
So we want Mount Tom and the other coal-burning power stations in Massachusetts to repower to cleaner energy. By endorsing the bill we are saying yes to:
a step-by-step approach to switching from coal to cleaner energy by 2020;
aCommunity Repowering Fund to help with the transition away from coal, safeguarding the livelihoods of the people who work in coal-fired power stations and the surrounding communities; and
switchingto natural gas only if the repowered plantemitsas little CO2 aspossible.
It's time to switch from coal to cleaner energy in Massachusetts, and quickly. So we support the Act to Phase Out Coal Burning in Massachusetts and we ask our state legislators to do the same.
Updates
January 13, 2011
I have spent this week drafting formal letters to the members of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications Utilities and Energy to demand a hearing on this bill. We are currently preparing a briefing packet that outlines the economic impact of the proposed Community Repowering Fund for local stakeholders.
6 Comments
My grandfather worked at mt tom and i get the jobs part but we cant just keep poisoning the air for a paycheck. Time to move on.
Clean air should be a basic right for everyone in MA. Stop the coal burning now.
SO MUCH FILTH COMING OUT OF THOSE STACKS. DO IT FOR THE PLANET.
Switch to gas or renewables immediately. Coal is dead.
It is 2014 we have the technology for solar and wind. Why are we still burning coal???
Living in Holyoke means breathing this smoke every day. My kids have asthma and enough is enough. Get rid of the coal plants.
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My grandfather worked at mt tom and i get the jobs part but we cant just keep poisoning the air for a paycheck. Time to move on.