NoSAG Encourages Vermont Citizens to get Informed. The links below will connect you with general information and issues with biomass plants.

• Dispelling the Myth of Clean, Green Biomass Power Truthout
• Beware the Biomass Economy by Jim Thomas.
• Electronic Map Tracks Logging for Biomass Energy [The Biomass Monitor]
  Energy Justice Network
• Wood Biomass for Heat and Power: Addressing Public Health Impacts
  Lowell Center for Sustainable Production - UMAss Lowell
• Heating Up the Earth - Global Warming for Kids!
• Biomass Incineration from the Energy Justice network
• Human Health Effects of Biomass Incinerators: A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Air Pollution and Children, with a Focus on Inflammation
  Congressional Briefing by Norma Schue Kreilein, MD, FAAP
• Health, Water and Land Impacts Comparison (pdf)
  from the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University
• Biomass Inceneration Health Issues Fact Sheet (pdf) from Save America's Forests
• Burning Trees to Make Electricity -- What Are They Thinking? Ellen Moyer, Ph. D.
• Wood Energy Not 'Green' Enough, Says Mass. NPR
• Massachusetts Tightens Rules on Biomass Plants Wall Street Journal
• High-Stakes War Over Springfield (MA) Biomass Power Plant Northampton Media
• Emissions from forest fires, biomass burning worse than thought: new study.
  from Biofuels Digest
• ISO New England Says Network Would Be Stable Without Yankee reported by VPR
  NoSAG asks: "If we don't need Vermont Yankee, why do we need the North Springfield Biomass Plant?"
• Massachusetts Biomass Regulations: The Model for Getting Biomass Policy Right
  Natural Resources Defense Council
• Sustainable Wood Bioenergy in Massachusetts Pinchot Institute for Conservation
• Biomass Basics from the Partnership for Policy Integrity
• “Renewable” biomass power cuts forests, pollutes the air, drains rivers, and worsens global warming PDF Factsheet from the Partnership for Policy Integrity
• New survey shows Americans don’t support biomass energy from the Partnership for Policy Integrity
• America's Forests Threatened by Tree Incinerators/ Wood Energy
• Bennington-Berkshire Citizens Coalition (fought Biomass plant in Pownal and won)
• Carbon emissions from burning biomass for energy by Partnership for Policy Integrity
• Wood burning power plants may hurt global warming fight The Green Blog, Boston.com
• Biomass Pollution Basics by David Pennise, CEIHD, U.C. Berkeley (PDF)
• Video: 2012-Feb-28 PSB Meeting at the High School Recorded by Annette Smith, Executive Director, Vermonters for a Clean Environment, Inc. recorded until 9:00 PM with 30 speakers.
• Video: 20120Feb-28 North Springfield Site Visit Preceded PSB meeting on same day. Recorded by Vermonters for a Clean Environment, Inc.
• Proposed North Springfield biomass plant draws concern, support
  Article from the Chester Telegraph on 2012-Mar-05
• Vermont Joins 11 States Sue EPA Over Delay in New Soot Rules
• American Lung Association
• Forest, carbon, and air quality impacts from wood energy facilities
• Biomass Briefing, October 2009
• Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry
• Biomass Reality Check: Lessons Learned in Massachusetts
• Growth of wood biomass power stokes concern on emissions
• Springfield Town Plan
• Biomass Energy: Beware of the Costs
• Matera: Burning more wood is for the Cavemen
• Burning wood to generate electricity can be worse for global warming than burning coal
• Vermonters’ Forests, Health Would Be Hurt by Expansion of Large-scale Wood-burning “Biomass” Energy
• from MAForests.org
  • Vermont's Biomass Biomess 2.3mb PDF
  • New England Biomess 90 MB PowerPoint
  • New England Biomess 50 MB PDF
• EPA Biopower Mapping Application