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ZBA Burns/Incinerates Biomass Permit…
**This post has been updated with pictures and for grammar. This post has also been corrected to accurately reflect the comments of one speaker with regard to Massachusetts municipal waste incinerator...
View ArticleBiomass Goes Down in Flames…
On a unanimous vote, the Springfield Zoning Board of Appeals overturned the building permit Building Commissioner Steven Desilets issued to Palmer Renewable Energy’s biomass facility slated for Page...
View ArticleBiomass Bulletins: Council ZBA Appeal on Hold…
The fight to stop a wood-burning electric plant on Page Boulevard lumbers on despite the recent victories of the plant’s many opponents. Palmer Renewable Energy, the plant’s developer has appealed both...
View ArticleBiomass Bulletins: City Council Appeal Sustained…
More than five months after it had overturned Palmer Renewable Energy’s permit to begin construction, the Zoning Board of Appeals once again ruled against the proposed biomass plant. Left unresolved...
View ArticleTake My Council, Please: In Appeal, Reaching Critical Biomass…
UPDATED 9/12/14 4:18PM: To clarify that Sarno’s action does not, in itself, terminate the Council’s appeal. He may or may not authorize funds, but he does not have the discretion to authorize the...
View ArticleEditorial: Your Own Counsel Will You Keep…
It was a little more than two weeks ago that the Springfield City Council did something it so rarely does. The body voted 12-1 to both assert the power it is imbued—power that it actually holds...
View ArticleTake My Council, Please: Still Burning through Agendas…
SPRINGFIELD—Aside from its atypical procedure to a select a new Council President, the City Council here glided through its last meeting of 2020. This Hell-spawned year had driven the body from its...
View ArticleMarkey Grabs a Shovel to Help Bury Zombie Biomass Project…
UPDATED 2/22/21 10:09AM: To include a statement from DEP and to include comments from Sen. Warren’s office. SPRINGFIELD—United States Senator Ed Markey joined opponents of the ever-undead proposal to...
View ArticleHas MassDEP Decapitated Springfield Biomass at Long Last?…
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection may have driven a stake through the heart of the nigh-undead biomass power plant proposed for Springfield. In a five-page decision dated April...
View ArticleLand Court Pours Cement on Biomass’s Grave in Springfield…Will It Hold This...
About 15 years after biomass entered the public consciousness of Springfield, the matter is still milling paper. Most recently, this took the form of a fresh defeat for the proposed project once slated...
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