350 North Shore Node, Meeting Notes - April 5, 2016, By Steven

350 North Shore Node, Meeting Notes - April 5, 2016, By Steven Levy

Please make corrections. This was my first meeting.

Location: Beverly Farms Library, Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Meeting started at 6:30 PM. Several people came in after the meeting started.

Attendees: Andy Gordon, Charlette Kahn, Charlie Perez, Fern MacDougal, Fred Hopps, Carolyn Britt (meeting leader), Herb Brown, Jay Gustaferro, Joy Gurrie, Maxine Taymore, Steven Levy (note taker), Terry Hall, Tom Gale,

Reading and approval of minutes - None

Announcements - none

Reports of officers, boards and standing committees - none

Old Business - From Agenda

(Text from meeting agenda is underlined)

1) Review of agenda and any additions – identify note-taker and facilitator

We should do updates electronically.

2) Update on Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline issues – 30 minutes

          DPU hearings – ACTION: organize attendance: April 6th there is a meeting in Lynnfield at the middle school.

          Article 97 happenings: Is for pipeline use. Kinder Morgan is suing the state. The outcome will effect public lands.

          Tariff

          ACTION: Submitting comments to Moultons web page: Survey is open ended. It would be nice to see the results.

3) Meeting with Moulton??!! – ACTION: Put together team to attend and items to be discussed -15 minutes: Is 15 minutes enough? The meeting is May 6th at 10:30 AM.

4) Attendance at Merchants of Doubt Showing in Salem on 4/22 with Moulton present – ACTION: Identify who will attend - 5 minutes.

Will Rep. Moulton be there? This is a movie about methodical corporate banding, distortion, obfuscation, and misrepresentation. http://www.commondreams.org/ is a good source for ideas. NS Chamber of commerce is pro pipeline. Markey is

5) Lynn follow-up meeting on water supply – ACTION: identify team to plan meeting, set up meeting – 10 minutes. No date has been set for water supply discussion, water shed implications, pesticide objections.

6) Pipeline tariff memes for Governor Baker – ACTION: Prepare memes -20 minutes. Prepare memes and take photos. Attendees completed the statement "I'd rather pay for". Then pictures were taken with each person and their sign.

7) Update on other legislation – solar, energy bill (Andy) – 10 minutes. Net metering is now at 3% which is higher than the 2% which was expected. There was a 40% reduction for commercial installations. Residential, municipalities and small business was not affected. The tariff on electric bills would pay for the pipeline. 47 out of 160 representatives rejected tariff. Representative Lori Ehrlich. was one of the 47. Voters in her district should say thanks.

8) 350MA Campaign Summit – Worcester, April 16 –10 minutes  ACTION- develop attendance list from North Shore Node: Five people can go.

9) North Shore Node Organizational Issues, (see notes to be sent later, including Rapid Response Legislative Team) ACTION: Review items, identify changes, identify next organizational topics for discussion -  15 minutes  Next meetings on May 3rd and June 7th at the Beverly Farms Library. There may be smaller sub meetings. Time and Place: TBD. We need a steering team of about three people. The team would set the agenda for the next meetings.

New business

1) Fern MacDougal talked about FANG (Fighting Against Natural Gas. There are events planned to oppose a natural gas plant in Burrillville, RI.

2) Fred Hopps talked about walking the Greenway in Peabody.

For the good of the club (small items, happy thoughts) - None

Meeting ended at 8:30 PM.