September 17, 2024 • SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER!

From Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere

Webinar:

Campaign to Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere (SPJE) - What We’ve Achieved to Date & What’s Next

September 19th, 2024

7:00 pm on Zoom

With Special Remarks by Susan Solomon, MIT professor, Nobel Prize recipient, and author of "Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again"

» Register here

For more information, contact: info@stopprivatejetexpansion.org.

About Susan Solomon:

Susan Solomon is an atmospheric chemistry professor at MIT and author of the book Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again, published in June 2024. Solomon is well-known for her pioneering work on the Antarctic ozone layer and played a crucial role in repairing the ozone hole. She is founding director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, and she co-led the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize»

» IT Interview with Susan Solomon.

From Mass Power Forward

Statehouse Action:

Governor Healey -

Don't kick the climate can down the road!

Join us at the state house to call on Governor Healey to not kick the climate can down the road. We must stop expanding the for-profit gas utility system, and right now Governor Healey is proposing a flimsy climate bill with no plan for ending the expansion (the only silver lining is an excellent environmental justice definition of cumulative impact analysis). 

WHAT: Press Conference and Action

WHERE: Meet at Nurse's Hall, 2nd Floor of the Boston Statehouse

WHO: You and your friends

WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 24th at 12pm

You are invited to: 

a) wear a suit jacket and play a legislator "kicking the climate can"

b) wear red and hold a sign with our call for a robust climate bill now!

» RSVP To Join!

Project Maple Webinar

Recording and Materials Available

Thanks so much to those of you who were able to join us for Monday’s presentation - “Project Maple: What Is It Really?” hosted by Rosemary Wessel, Program Director for BEAT’s No Fracked Gas in Mass Program, and Cathy Kristofferson of Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast.

If you couldn’t attend the presentation, that’s fine! We have a recording and slides available to catch up on this troubling pipeline expansion by Enbridge’s Algonquin Gas Transmission company.

Here are links:

» Presentation video

» Slides (will download a PDF)

Additional related materials:

» Video of the Middleborough Gas & Electric presentation by AGT

» Map showing all receipt and delivery points on the AGT pipeline

» Interactive map of the AGT pipeline route

This will let you zoom in for a closer view of where this pipeline system is.

You can also find these materials on the Home page of StopProjectMaple.org http://www.stopprojectmaple.org/, as well as additional information and materials on the Resources page.

Learn more about Enbridge's "Project Maple" plans for the Algonquin Gas Transmisison pipeline system.

Visit and bookmark StopProjectMaple.org to keep up as this and related projects unfold.

Comment Period Extended: Interagency Offshore Wind Council Public Comments   

The Massachusetts Interagency Offshore Wind Council (IOWC) has extended the public comment period on the draft Offshore Wind Strategic Plan’s recommendations, including the strategies and actions to achieve the Plan’s goals. Written public comments on the draft recommendations will now be accepted through 5:00 PM on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

Please send any written comments to jmintz@vhb.com with “IOWC Public Comments” in the subject line.

The IOWC looks forward to your engagement on the Commonwealth’s first Offshore Wind Strategic Plan.

Peakers are a state-wide issue!

We’re gathering signatures from across the state to show support as we continue to look at other peakers as part of our work with the Mass Clean Peak Coalition.

» No matter where in MA you are, sign our Statewide Peaker Petition