Massachusetts Incinerator Moratorium – Take Action by February 15, 2013 1


The Massachusetts Chapter of The Sierra Club has an item about Backing the Ban on Incinerators.

Tell MassDEP Commissioner Kenneth Kimmell to maintain the ban on incineration and enforce waste bans. Comments will be accepted until February 15, 2013, 5pm, and sent to: John Fischer at dep.swm@state.ma.us or by mail to: John Fischer, MassDEP, One Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108. Please copy the Sierra Club on your communication at office@sierraclubmass.org.

As an example, here is the email that I wrote to the MASS DEP.

Subject: Comments about the proposed lifting of the moratorium on
incinerators
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:48:14 -0500
From: Steven Greenberg <steve@ssgreenberg.name>
To: dep.swm@state.ma.us
CC: office@sierraclubmass.org

John Fischer,

Do not lift the moratorium on incinerators in Massachusetts.

In the Tellus Report, commissioned by the Commonwealth, there is all the necessary information on why the moratorium should not be lifted. Not only did Massachusetts commission this report, but the link takes you to the report posted on the Massachusetts web site.

The department that commissioned this report owes us all an explanation of why they would take action that is contrary to the technical, environmental, and economic information that they already have at their disposal.

Until such explanation is forthcoming, the moratorium should remain or perhaps be turned into a permanent ban.

/Steven Greenberg


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