Welcome to the Marshfield Energy Committee's web site. Our mission is to promote energy conservation and renewable energy to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. We created this website to inform the community about energy and environmental related issues, events and initiatives. Click on the Menu Bar to learn more about our Mission and other topics. Please Contact us if you have a question or comment.  Also, click to view a Chronological Report of our activities. We look forward to your cooperation and assistance with accomplishing our goals. We are also hosting information about the Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury Coastal Adaptation Study. This study will address long range planning for sea level rise and changes in storm intensity and frequency due to climate change. Go to Climate Plan for more info.

Thank you, Gia Lane, Chair

Members of the Marshfield Energy Committee are; Gia Lane - Chairperson, Dr. George Cicchetti - Secretary, Phil Angell, Steve Argyle, Jamie Beard, Tony Pina, James MacDonald and Ex-Offico, Rocco Longo - Town Administrator and Paul Halkiotis - Town Planner. This site is hosted and maintained by the Marshfield Energy Committee. We do not endorse any product or services and links on the site are responsible for their own content.

 

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(October 24, 2011 - Special Town Meeting) Voters approved Articles 18, 19 and 22. The voters approved a land exchange between DPW and the Conservation Committee for purposes of better siting of a proposed wind turbine. Also the voters approved seeking an eminent domain authority from the legislature for a parcel of land at Carolina Hill as a potential wind turbine site.  Finally the voters authorized a match for a grant of up to $85,000 from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for a Feasibility study. The match is contingent on receiving an award from MCEC for our Feasibility application. Click to open PowerPoint presentation from Town Meeting.  

(October 27, 2011) - Long Range Planning for Sea Level Rise Workshop - Duxbury, Marshfield and Scituate hosted a Climate Adaptation Workshop (Long Range Planning for Sea Level Rise) at the Marshfield Senior Center as part of a grant from the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC). Presenters were Jim O'Connell, Scituate Conservation Agent, Anne Herbst,  Hull, Conservation Administrator and Julia Knisel, MA Coastal Zone Management. Click to open Coastal Zone Management  StormSmart for information about adaptation. (December, 2011) - Duxbury, Marshfield and Scituate awarded $30,000 grant to study sea level rise projections. This Gulf of Maine Council grant will study sea level rise projections 25, 50 and 100 years out to determine areas that will be vulnerable to flooding.