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And then when they generate, they're actually producing power, but then they need to gear down as well. So there's a startup period when startup generators are running. They don't run as efficiently as efficiently as a new plant. So they're inefficient just because of that. I think it's more than half of them are 50 years old or older. The majority of them are 30 years old or older. In Massachusetts, there are 24 “peaker” plants. They need a long time- First of all, most of them are old. They run when the grid is already maxed out and the regular generating plants are maxed out and there's just a little more power needed to- Usually during the hottest, most humid weather, especially if it's a string of days, these plants come online to address that extra power that's needed for everyone's air conditioning and so on.Īnd what makes “peaker” plants particularly adverse to the environment? There's actually three “peaker” plants in Berkshire County, two of them in Pittsfield. Can you provide a working definition of what a “peaker” plant is? WAMC: Now, there is a “peaker” plant here in Pittsfield Massachusetts. And now with our “Put Peakers In The Past” campaign, we're starting to take on existing fossil fuel infrastructure that we feel has had its time and doesn't need to be what it is anymore. We've been making sure to keep on top of new fracked gas infrastructure that was being proposed and present arguments as to why it shouldn't be built. Since then, that project has been withdrawn, one of the other big pipelines was withdrawn. We initially responded to the NED pipeline, the Northeast Energy Direct, that was proposed by Kinder Morgan, and soon found that there were five large pipelines being proposed across the state at that time. WESSEL: No Fracked Gas in Mass started in response to the large pipeline projects that were being proposed in 2014. WAMC spoke with No Fracked Gas in Mass program director Rose Wessell about the initiative.

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They’ve also organized an ongoing Friday afternoon demonstration series against the plants on Dalton Avenue in Pittsfield by one of the peakers located on Merrill Road. The group says it would reduce the environmental and health impacts from the “peaker” plants that come online during spikes in energy use by customers. The Berkshire Environmental Action Team’s No Fracked Gas in Mass initiative is behind the effort. Together, we can make that future a reality.Tonight, the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Board of Health will hear a petition calling for three Berkshire County power plants to transition to green energy. We need clean, local, renewable energy now to protect the health of our climate and our communities. Sign the petition to stop a fossil fuel pipeline proposed for Longmeadow and Springfield today. Neighbors deserve to breathe clean air, not more fossil fuel pollution. This pipeline would be built through residential areas in Longmeadow and Springfield. Fracked gas pollutes the air we breathe.A new pipeline locks us into fossil fuels for decades to come. We are facing record-breaking heat waves, droughts, fires and flooding. The deadly 2018 Lawrence explosion and fires killed one person, displaced 30,000 others, and damaged 40 homes.

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It was a gas pipeline that caused the massive explosion in downtown Springfield in 2012. We don’t need another fracked gas pipeline. Tell Eversource to stop this dangerous fossil fuel pipeline! Sign the petition. We are in the midst of a climate crisis, and yet: Eversource wants to build a new fracked gas pipeline right in Longmeadow and Springfield, MA. Smoke from wildfires on the west coast is polluting the air in the northeast.īlack, Indigenous, communities of color and poor communities are targeted with fossil fuel pollution, polluting the air we breathe.

$no fracked gas in mass$

No fracked gas in mass