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Above: The Pittsfield Generating Plant at 235 Merrill Road, Pittsfield. Mass, owned by Hull Street Energy; still image from the short documentary, The Peaker Plant Problem, by Ben Hillman, via YouTube.
Listen to the show live HERE Thursdays from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Eastern every week.
Send your questions and comments by e-mail to [email protected].
THE TOP LEFT CORNER for the week of Thursday, July 29, 2021
Welcome to this week’s episode of the Top Left Corner!
If you’re here for the first time, the Top Left Corner is a locally focused weekly live internet radio show and podcast based in Williamstown, Mass.
We do our best to wade through the spin and biases and bring back the important stuff that most of us really care about. Every week, we’re going to tell you what we think about local current events and the national stories that directly affect the people of Williamstown and Berkshire County. We also interview amazing guests.
You can listen live—and participate live. You’ll find a chat box you can use to comment live–anonymously if you wish. We do our best to read and address everyone’s comments on the air:
–Jay and Steve
FOR STARTERSStuff we might touch on during our opening banter.
Baker says Massachusetts is different as other states impose COVID-19 protocols
Governor Charlie Baker said that he sees no need for Massachusetts to reinstate restrictions in response to rising COVID-19 cases, striking a contrast with President Biden, who is urging Americans to mask up again and requiring many federal workers to get vaccinated. But the governor did say he is considering mandating masks in public schools this fall.
LOCALCan you turn and point to where Mt. Greylock is, generally? Then we’re talkin’ ’bout you.
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Shutting down “peakers” to protect public health.
Rosemary Wessel
TAKE ACTION TODAY to PUT PEAKERS IN THE PAST:
Sign the petition.Rosemary Wessel is Program Director of No Fracked Gas in Mass, a program of Berkshire Environmental Action Team. No Fracked Gas in Mass offers acts as a website, information and action-plan clearing house for activists opposing fracked gas and other combustion-based infrastructure development in the Northeast: connecting and advising community activists on its impacts, resistance through the project approval process and reducing demand through efficiency and renewables. No Fracked Gas in Mass’ current focus is in pressuring peaker power plants to convert to grid scale storage and clean energy sources.
Rosemary is also Clean Energy Coordinator for Old Stone Mill Center Zero Waste Maker Space in Adams, MA, which has vowed to remain fossil fuel free in its development. She’s a graphic designer, managing her Three Salamanders Design Studio in Cummington.
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Above: The Pittsfield Generating Plant at 235 Merrill Road, Pittsfield. Mass, owned by Hull Street Energy; still image from the short documentary, The Peaker Plant Problem, by Ben Hillman, via YouTube.
Listen to the show live HERE Thursdays from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Eastern every week.
Send your questions and comments by e-mail to [email protected].
THE TOP LEFT CORNER for the week of Thursday, July 29, 2021
Welcome to this week’s episode of the Top Left Corner!
If you’re here for the first time, the Top Left Corner is a locally focused weekly live internet radio show and podcast based in Williamstown, Mass.
We do our best to wade through the spin and biases and bring back the important stuff that most of us really care about. Every week, we’re going to tell you what we think about local current events and the national stories that directly affect the people of Williamstown and Berkshire County. We also interview amazing guests.
You can listen live—and participate live. You’ll find a chat box you can use to comment live–anonymously if you wish. We do our best to read and address everyone’s comments on the air:
–Jay and Steve
FOR STARTERSStuff we might touch on during our opening banter.
Baker says Massachusetts is different as other states impose COVID-19 protocols
Governor Charlie Baker said that he sees no need for Massachusetts to reinstate restrictions in response to rising COVID-19 cases, striking a contrast with President Biden, who is urging Americans to mask up again and requiring many federal workers to get vaccinated. But the governor did say he is considering mandating masks in public schools this fall.
LOCALCan you turn and point to where Mt. Greylock is, generally? Then we’re talkin’ ’bout you.
•
Shutting down “peakers” to protect public health.
Rosemary Wessel
TAKE ACTION TODAY to PUT PEAKERS IN THE PAST:
Sign the petition.Rosemary Wessel is Program Director of No Fracked Gas in Mass, a program of Berkshire Environmental Action Team. No Fracked Gas in Mass offers acts as a website, information and action-plan clearing house for activists opposing fracked gas and other combustion-based infrastructure development in the Northeast: connecting and advising community activists on its impacts, resistance through the project approval process and reducing demand through efficiency and renewables. No Fracked Gas in Mass’ current focus is in pressuring peaker power plants to convert to grid scale storage and clean energy sources.
Rosemary is also Clean Energy Coordinator for Old Stone Mill Center Zero Waste Maker Space in Adams, MA, which has vowed to remain fossil fuel free in its development. She’s a graphic designer, managing her Three Salamanders Design Studio in Cummington.