Stop Vermont Biomass

"To continue benefiting from the spiritual refuge and ecosystem services provided by forests, it is crucial that we...halt our subjugation of them. We protect them, they protect us. We conserve them, they conserve us." #ClimateForests @PublicForests vtdigger.org/2024/08/16/gra…

Join us on Thursday for a rally and canvassing event to retire the McNeil plant, Vermont’s largest polluter! We will have zines, a sign-on letter, and new information about the plant and what you can do to help retire it. 🔥🔥 #shutitdown

This coming Monday in Burlington! Join us and our allies on a critical mass bike ride! We will meet at Battery Park at 5pm, slow-roll through Burlington, and end at the UVM Palestine Solidarity Encampment.

Today's a perfect day to tell the Forest Service NO LOGGING TELEPHONE GAP! standingtrees.org/post/take-acti…

"Vermont’s accounting on climate emissions is dishonest. That in turn has misled legislators and other Vermonters into thinking the state is doing well at confronting the climate crisis." #CutCarbonNotForests @stopvtbiomass @PublicForests @350Vermont vtdigger.org/2023/12/05/den…

It should never have been a difficult decision, but despite overwhelming opposition from the residents they are supposed to represent, Burlington City Council decided to vote yes for the McNeil steam pipe tonight. The fight is not over! We're not going away!

TOMORROW: join us in showing #btvcitycouncil we're watching as they vote on the steam pipeline and carbon pollution impact fee! Bring a sign to Contois Auditorium (Church St.) and your friends 🖤

After all the compelling evidence to the contrary (including this one below), no reasonable body would see the expansion of the McNeil biomass plant as a good thing. Burlington City Council will show us how well they can reason on Monday. stopbtvbiomass.org/get-involved

Burlington City Council will vote NEXT MONDAY on the fate of the expansion plan for the dirty McNeil biomass plant. Follow the link below to contact your councilor this week and tell them NO #districtenergy! We don't want this monster to get any bigger! stopbtvbiomass.org/get-involved

The writing is on the wall. Biomass doesn't pay. #CutCarbonNotForests #StopTheChop #ClimateForests #LetThemGrow @stopvtbiomass @PublicForests insideclimatenews.org/news/09112023/…

Rally at noon Sunday at City Hall! City Council votes on McNeil expansion 11/20. This is NOT just a Burlington issue - we ALL feel the same impacts of a ruined climate. If you're not from BTV, you do NOT get to sit this one out! Toolkit here: tinyurl.com/4c3s359f

It's high time #Burlington faces the fact that burning biomass is #notcarbonneutral. Time to phase out McNeil, not expand it! Ashley Adams: Biomass boondoggle or turning point? vtdigger.org/2023/10/24/ash… @stopvtbiomass

Misguided energy policy, politics, and adherence to “business as usual” threatens to lock us into a dirty, dangerous, and unjust future climate. Contact City Council and demand they break from old thinking and vote NO on the expansion of the McNeil plant. stopbtvbiomass.org

"The International Energy Agency has told us it's time to stop adding new combustion infrastructure on this planet, and that includes adding new pipes to carry steam away from McNeil." -@billmckibben at our film screening last night #DontExpandMcNeil youtu.be/vMtRVm8G5mc?si…

Join us 10/19 for a virtual screening of "BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?" Vermont-based activist Bill McKibben will join us. The show will be followed by a discussion of the proposed expansion of the McNeil biomass power plant in Burlington. Register: stopbtvbiomass.org/news.../burned…

Action Alert! Please call UVM Medical Center today at 802-847-5959 and tell them that expanding the McNeil biomass plant to serve UVMMC is a bad deal for Burlington, the health of all Vermonters, our climate and our forests. #NoSteamPipe #DontExpandMcNeil

Let’s hit the phones tomorrow and tell UVMMC to give a hard pass to the McNeil steam pipe!

“Climate and ecological collapse is happening right now and the window of opportunity for doing something about it is slamming shut... that is why the dithering in Vermont around biomass combustion is so maddening." - Ashley Adams of @stopvtbiomass wamc.org/news/2023-09-2…

Pipe Dream? It's Decision Time on Burlington's Long-Simmering Proposal to Heat Buildings With Wood-Fired Steam sevendaysvt.com/vermont/pipe-d…

Burlington Electric wants you to believe full-grown trees magically pop out of the ground to replace the trees they burn. Tell your City Councilor today to reject BED’s misleading science! tinyurl.com/5xxhwymx #DontExpandMcNeil #NoDistrictHeat #OurForestsArentFuel #NoSteamPipe