Posted on 08/02/2023 8:53:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
The executive order was announced in a press release and will eliminate "the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Construction and Major Renovations of City Buildings."
The goal is "accelerating climate action by requiring that all new municipal buildings and major renovations operate without fossil fuels." The press release also claimed the move would reduce "emissions from Boston’s building sector while creating high-quality jobs, improving public health and quality of life, and advancing racial and economic justice."
All new buildings in the city must be planned, designed, and constructed using non-combustion for cooking (stoves/ovens), HVAC, and hot water apparatuses.
The mayor claimed that recent weather means that there isn't much time to make quick political changes.
“Week after week, we see the signs of extreme heat, storms, and flooding that remind us of a closing window to take climate action,” said Wu. “The benefits of embracing fossil fuel-free infrastructure in our City hold no boundary across industries and communities, and Boston will continue using every possible tool to build the green, clean, healthy, and prosperous future our city deserves.”
The ordinance also sets emission standards for what are categorized as "large existing buildings," which also require all covered and municipal buildings to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
The announcement boasted work by Oliver Sellers-Garcia, who is the city's first "Green New Deal director," a role the city created to make sure it was aligning with a radical climate agenda first promoted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019.
The role officially "works across the City to advance climate action through strategies that address social, racial, and economic inequality."
“As part of the Green New Deal for Boston, we are taking an all-of-government approach,
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I tell you, NOTHING says “racial and economic justice” like preventing poor minorities from accessing cheap, plentiful energy.
Where is all this electricity coming from...do we have to have a kite and key on our roof?
Pull the meter and jumper it.
“ The press release also claimed the move would reduce “emissions from Boston’s building sector while creating high-quality jobs, improving public health and quality of life, and advancing racial and economic justice.”
This is utter BS nonsense. Building new buildings use the same jobs regardless of what furnace you install. It will also unneedlessly INCREASE costs as they’ll have to use more expensive (and less efficient) AC and heating units which will surely NOT help quality of life and makes the whole infrastructure more fragile which does not help public health!
How this advances racial “equity” is anyone’s guess.
Oh look another Dingbat
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I would be able to safely do that, but a low-income housing tenant?
We have the same nonsense and worse in the Puget Sound region near Seattle. How is it that greenies do not understand that it is much less efficient to generate electricity largely from natural gas and coal, use transformers to step up the voltage for transmission, send it all through transmission lines, then use more transformers to step the voltage back down for use, and then convert it back to heat. There are losses all along the way. Advocates claim that the higher efficiency of heat pumps mitigate this, and within very specific temperature ranges this has some validity, but engineers have already figured this out, and large buildings have a combination of heating sources which make the best use of resources.
All idiot politicians and activists do is screw good system designs up. This is of course nothing but shameful feel-good lunacy that accomplishes nothing worthwhile.
I’ve seen butter knife blades in Chester PA.
Chester is worse than Philly.
She has no clue about the things made from Oil or using Oil to make ,LOL
It is NOT insane.
It is evil.
Bostonians, you want to save your city?
Get rid of electronic voting machines and secure your damn elections.
This is a good thing.
Liberal cities are dying, from multiple dumb ideas. But, it’s taking too long.
So, construction that evades fossil-fuel usage in buildings, is one way to hurry up the eventual death of those cities. All blue cities should follow Boston’s lead and the U.S. will be a better place without them.
If this is true, how long will it take for the harm to filter down and force more people to flee to Florida?
I hope for Florida’s sake that Boston sends the best of the best, or at least the best of the worse.
This country is turning into China!
Our family left Boston around 1900 ,LOL
So any and all support equipment, new construction or renovations, must have no component or process in making them that EVER involved “fossil fuels”. Fookin’ idjits!
And while they’re at it, ban illegal aliens from voting and turn them over to ICE to be deported!
Will the steel, glass, and concrete in the new construction also be made without fossil fuels?
If not, why not?
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