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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.
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WMA Biomass opponents challenge study\'s impartiality
Last Friday, Springfield area residents got some good news. According to a press release from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Secretary Bowles announced that he has directed MassDEP to suspend review of permit ...
Greenfield residents sold down the river-- or should I say sewage line?
"If you wouldn't want to drink it, why would you want to breathe it?" That very reasonable question by a Greenfield resident to the Greenfield Appointment and Ordinance Committee at a public hearing last Monday summed up the concerns of the 100...
Burning more wood is for cavemen
Here's a letter about biomass from Chris Matera, Forest Watch, which was published in The Brattleboro Reformer.The glowing and superficial review of burning forests for energy (a.k.a., biomass energy) in the July 29 editorial by the Reformer and its ...
Greenfield biomass hearing gets wild
Well, Springfield, we've got to catch up. Greenfield has some passionate environmentalists, but last night when the Greenfield Zoning Board didn't even want to hear from a resident who lives right across the street from the proposed plant, and has ...
Many good reasons to oppose biomass proposal for Springfield
On Tuesday, June 16, I and my sister Liz, Arise's Economic Justice organizer, went to a public forum by the Springfield Area Sustainable Energy Association (SASEA) on the problems with a biomass plant proposed for Springfield by Palmer Paving. Only ...
