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@wgbhnews What a fantastic podcast, & not b/c I was mentioned, I swear. Honest look at @CharlieBakerMA's record on certain things... the part I'm interested in is his handling of state responsibility re: compressor permitting, AND... 1/
@wgbhnews @CharlieBakerMA ... @CharlieBakerMA ignoring a "model protester" for 82 days as I waited for him to take action re: compressor on state level. I sat in his office as he'd ignored Weymouth for 2 yrs running up to my action. TWO YEARS. Blog for my action is here: sitwithandrea.wordpress.com 2/
@wgbhnews @CharlieBakerMA As you can see, it took A LOT to get him to take any action. He kept saying "it's a Federal issue". There is a Federal component to the #weymouthMA permitting process. Normally @FERC has the last word. Not so in our case: @MassCZM has the last last word. 3/
1/ The @MassDEP yesterday denied charges of conflicts of interest against a specialist hired by @Enbridge to oversee cleanup of a contaminated site for its proposed compressor station in #Weymouth
2/ even though Kelley Race of @TRC_Companies has been working on the project for both @enbridge and Calpine for nearly two years, current conflict of interest rules allow her to also provide cleanup services as a state-certified Licensed Site Professional 
3/ Technically, the DEP is correct. According to its current rules, an LSP is not conflicted - unless they work for more than *one* interested party in a cleanup. But the case highlights the inherent, structural conflict of interest in the privatized toxic cleanup program
