On Thursday 7/15 MMWEC asked the Mass DPU to move forward with the peaker project proceedings as of 7/29. While we are very disappointed with MMWEC’s decision, our partner, Mass. Community Action Network (MCAN), will be filing briefs with the DPU on the 29th as well as most likely responding to MMWEC’s filed briefs on 8/5. We will be discussing our next steps to stop the plant at our next meeting – scheduled for Tuesday, 7/27 from 6:30-8:00 pm.
Registration link coming soon – check back!
In the meantime, we will be continuing our efforts to educate as many people as possible about this proposed dirty peaker, and push for an alternative, clean solution to this proposed dirty fossil fuel generator in Peabody. We are also working to change the existing regulations that continue to promote dirty fossil fuel power plants over cleaner, alternative, renewable power plants and energy storage solutions.
If you’d like to get involved send an email to breatheclean.ns@gmail.com!
Article released 7/5/2021 by Paul Dale, Energy Committee Chair, Mass. Sierra Club
This is a comprehensive analysis of Project 2015a as it stands today, looking at true costs, renewable alternative costs, and explains why “The proposed peaker power plant in Peabody is unnecessary, harmful and costly“
Breathe Clean North Shore members attended and spoke as part of the agenda at the regular public meeting of the Peabody Municipal Light Plant on Thursday night June 24th 2021. The PMLP commissioners answered our questions and agreed to have ongoing conversations regarding future plans and to make more of an effort to inform the public of their ongoing projects and plans.
On Tuesday night, June 22nd MMWEC hosted a public forum that included an extensive informational presentation by MMWEC and some of the member Municiple Utilities. Here is a link to a recording of the meeting. The question/answer session starts at about 1 hour 54 minutes in.
“Every day we try to empower patients to live the healthiest lives they can live, and a lot of it is out of their control,” she said. “They can make healthy lifestyle choices. They can take their inhaler. But air quality is out of their control. I find it’s a justice issue. We want to level the playing field. We want every person in Peabody, every person on the North Shore, to have an opportunity to breathe clean air and live a healthy lifestyle.”
“It just makes it riskier for all of our patients to breathe the air, and makes it more likely for them to be admitted to the hospital,” she said, adding, “I think we could see more people struggling to breathe. We’re going to see more heart attacks and more people struggling with angina or chest discomfort. The particulate matter has even been shown to cross the placenta, so there is some evidence to show it increases preterm births, and it just causes overall inflammation and ill health, so we would expect more admissions, particularly when it is firing.”
NEIGHBORS within 1/2 MILE RADIUS of the Proposed Plant
VIZINHOS dentro de 1/2 MILE DE RAIO da PLANTA DE PICO PROPOSTA –
VECINOS dentro de un RADIO de 1/2 MILLAS de la PLANTA PICO PROPUESTA
PEABODY
Tammie Lane
Blake Street
Pulaski Street
Sheffield Road
Wiseman Drive
Workingman’s Drive
Esquire Circle
Canterbury Drive
North Central Court
North Central Street
Buxton Lane
Dobbs Road
Gallant Road
Westview Circle
Spinale Road
Abbington Avenue
Gardner Road
