Onset Site of State-Wide Rally Honoring the Land
ONSET, MA: On July 31, 2021, in Onset and Greenfield, MA rallies will be held to highlight the environmental injustice of clear-cutting forest for land-based industrial solar arrays. The event will bring attention to the thousands of acres of mature forest destroyed in a rush to realize cash benefits from the state's misguided renewable energy incentives.
Onset VFW, Gibbs Ball Field Rd, Onset, MA
1-4 PM
Fearing Hill Forest is slated for destruction.
We demand a moratorium on solar subsidies and approvals unless they meet these standards:
On rooftops or existing infrastructureIf ground-mounted: limited to 5 acres or less and land not cleared within the last five years, and no impact on:
• Biodiversity including plants and animals listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act,
• Forests, protected open space or agricultural land,
• Native American cultural areas as determined by Massachusetts' Indigenous people,
• BioMap 2 Critical Natural Landscape Core Habitat, Important Habitat, or Priority Habitat, or
• Outstanding Resource Waters, wetlands or rivers.
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