Thread by @grumpygrumpyowl

Since I found out last night that AG Healey went out of her way to express her approval of NEW GAS INFRASTRUCTURE in Douglas timed *right* after she was elected, I feel a thread coming on. But I have to get some work done first 1/n
#mapoli

Aw, hell, @MassAGO @maura_healey is parroting gas industry ... 💀GAS INDUSTRY💀 ... points in this enthusiastic approval! Gov. Gas 2.0!
#mapoli @Karynregal @deehan @stephmsolis @mckennapr @itai_vardi @amywestervelt @shankman @dharnanoor @MiriamWasser

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But WAIT, Isn't this the same Maura Healey that sued Exxon?! Yes!

She's also the same person who for multiple YEARS watched, inactive, while our current Governor Baker ignored and/or broke laws to allow Enbridge to build their verkakte gas transmission compressor on the tiniest

plot of land in the US, next to the most densely populated area, in a hurricane inundation zone, on top of a superfund waste site. AND MA gets NONE of the gas.

Healey blew us off over and over. She could have acted so many times, and she did not.

But… glass ceilings and all that 🤬

Already Gov Gas on minute 1, getting back to my point:
expressing approval for NEW gas infra while still AG:
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Those of us that have been schooled really well by past experience, climate reporters, scientists, etc KNOW what bullshit gas industry talking points are and what they look like when inserted into documents.

Maura Healey is parroting gas industry ... 💀GAS INDUSTRY💀 ...

talking points in this enthusiastic approval of new gas infra in MA.

Hey, Maura, we have MA LAWS against this, WTAF. Help us understand how you're breaking them on Day 1

Help us understand how this steaming pile of bullcrap paragraph justifies NEW gas infrastructure?! Douglas is "green" so let's pollute it AND put more stress and pollution on Pennsylvania's residents in the Marcellus Shale?!

MA has LAWS, regulations, climate goals that

are INCOMPATIBLE with new fossil fuel facilities/pipelines!

I'm so fricking pissed, and I only know this because @StopNEDirect PLAN-NE watch this stuff like hawks.

summary, not in my words:
Maura Healey waits until the day after the election to file IN SUPPORT of Eversource

gas expansion in Douglas.

Healey had filed for an extension for filing briefs to be a week LONGER which juuuuust happened to be the day after her shoo-in election for Governor.

This purposeful action parroting gas industry points undermines her stated "commitment" to

2030 emission reduction goals. LOL. (Plus MA laws!)

The government of Douglas is captured and the ppl of Douglas have NO idea what's up.

MA has a lot of gas projects that our R governor wouldn't stop, and I cannot believe we are going to have to fight our

own party's Governor to get her to not be a gas shill.
This shit is exhausting.

Might have to dust this off
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The political entities in MA know what we’re [MA climate activists & community members] capable of as a state-wide group/individually when Gov’s are pro-gas.

We learned a LOT combatting Baker, and have gotten our shyness and naiveté out of the way.

There will be no

hesitation to bring all of our efforts to bear if this 💩 keeps happening under your watch. Ignoring MA’s environmental laws will bring consequences.

ONE last note:

Healey did not have to file her approval as AG because the Baker administration would never have turned down Eversource. Healey and her office did NOT have to go the extra miles to urge them to approve the project

.@MayorDriscoll, soon the Lt Gov: you are on the hook for this as well.

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