“When you factor all of this in, I see no way that anyone could come to the conclusion that moving forward with this project is the right thing to do,' says logandmalik
MCAN commissioned a study to look at federal census and health data about the communities within a 1.25 mile radius of the so-called— a proposed natural gas and diesel-fired power plant in Peabody that will operate up to 1,250 hours per year when electricity demand spikes. And what it found is that building this plant will exacerbate existing health and environmental justice disparities.
Susan Smoller, who lives near the proposed plant and co-founded the community group Breathe Clean North Shore agrees. “In my professional opinion, it is both unnecessary and unjust to build this peaker plant in Peabody,” he adds. Unnecessary because of renewable energy alternatives, and “unjust because, as the report notes, Peabody is a disadvantaged community that already has elevated levels of air pollution and suffers excessively high rates of air-pollution related disease and premature death.”
“Emissions such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other hazardous pollutants can contribute to cancer risk, birth defects, and harm to the nervous system and brain,” the board writes. And “emissions of particulates increase risk of heart disease, lung cancer, COPD, and asthma,” the board wrote.
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