Will New Hampshire Ratepayers be Forced to Pay More for Dirty Energy?

New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­tors will be vot­ing on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2018 on whether to over­ride the gov­er­nor’s veto of SB365, a bill that would pro­vide $68 mil­lion in sub­si­dies to sev­en of the state’s 13 largest indus­tri­al air pol­luters: the trash incin­er­a­tor in Con­cord, and six tree-burn­ing “bio­mass” incin­er­a­tors. This would raise the rates of Ever­source and Uni­til cus­tomers by at an esti­mat­ed $60–75/year (and pos­si­bly as much as $120/year), accord­ing to state agen­cies. There is no clean ener­gy in this bill — only dirty ener­gy sub­si­dies. Please help stop us SB 365, by tak­ing action below.

See our new fact­sheet: The Dou­ble Cost of Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion — fact­sheet on how New Hamp­shire Sen­ate Bill 365 would sub­si­dize sev­en uneco­nom­i­cal bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tors in the state, hit­ting our health AND pocketbooks.

Incin­er­a­tors are the biggest pol­luters in near­ly half of New Hamp­shire’s counties:

Sen­ate Bill 365 would force Uni­til and Ever­source cus­tomers to pay about $60 more per year accord­ing to the bil­l’s own analy­sis by the NH Pub­lic Util­i­ty Com­mis­sion. See pages 6–8 here. The state’s Office of Con­sumer Advo­cate has indi­cat­ed it could be as much as twice that amount.

This is to pro­tect sev­en uneco­nom­i­cal incin­er­a­tors, six that burn trees, and one in Con­cord that burns trash, feed­ing many mil­lions per year to these com­pa­nies. These facil­i­ties are among the state’s 13 largest air pol­luters. Spread through­out half of the state’s coun­ties, most are the largest air pol­luters in their coun­ties, by far. See the fact­sheet for details.

TAKE ACTION!

1. Sign onto this alert to email your state rep­re­sen­ta­tives.
2. Fol­low up with a phone call to your state rep­re­sen­ta­tives, ask­ing them NOT to over­ride the veto on SB 365.
   
   Find your reps here.

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  Groups oppos­ing SB 365:

  
  
  
  
  • Action Col­lab­o­ra­tive for Tran­si­tion to Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Now (ACTS Now)
  
  
  • Ener­gy Jus­tice Network
  
  
  • Part­ner­ship for Pol­i­cy Integrity
  
  
  • Sea­coast Anti-Pol­lu­tion League
  
  
  • Sier­ra Club — NH Chapter
  
  
  • Tox­i­cs Action Cen­ter Campaigns
  
  
  • Work­ing on Waste
  
  
  
  

  For more back­ground on trash and bio­mass incin­er­a­tion, see this recent arti­cle sum­ma­riz­ing bio­mass health impacts on work­ers and com­mu­ni­ties, our Woody Bio­mass Fact­sheet, our bio­mass page and our trash incin­er­a­tion page.

  
  

  Please con­tact Mike Ewall at 215–436-9511 with any questions.