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WHEREAS, particulate and gaseous pollution from the planned Palmer Renewable Energy
plant would increase hazardous pollution throughout the Pioneer Valley; and
WHEREAS, our City stands in solidarity with the residents of the City of Springfield, and the
Springfield City Council, which passed a resolution on December 21, 2020,
opposing Massachusetts state incentives for wood -burning biomass plants,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of Northampton opposes any state
incentives for inefficient commercial wood -burning biomass plants in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council calls upon the Massachusetts DOER to revise the
proposed RPS regulations by returning the woody biomass provisions to their previous, science -
based language; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council calls upon the Joint Committee on
Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy of the Massachusetts Legislature to hold an
accessible public hearing on said proposed RPS regulations; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council urges its State Legislative Delegation to support
state legislation to remove and bar taxpayer and ratepayer incentives for inefficient commercial
biomass power plants in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by making them ineligible to
meet the requirements of the Renewable Portfolio Standard; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Administrative Assistant to the City Council shall send a copy
of this Resolution to the Springfield City Council, Representative Lindsay Sabadosa and Senator
Jo Comerford, as well as Governor Charles Baker, DOER Commissioner Patrick Woodcock, and
the Co -Chairs and Vice Co -Chairs of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and
Energy, Senators Mike Barrett and Mark Pacheco and Representatives Jeffrey Roy and Paul
Mark.
In City Council, March d, 2021
Passed First Reading on Roll Call Vote of 9 Yes, 0 No, 0 Absent
Attest: _ , Clerk of Council
In City Council, March 18, 2021
Passed Second Reading on Roll Call Vole of 9 Yes, 0 No, 0 Absent
Attest,. , Clerk or council
Passed two readings and enrolled.
I hereby certify that the above Resolution passed the Northampton City Council on March 18, 2021
Attest: �[� , Clerk of Council