The new Seneca biomass plant in Eugene will get millions in state tax breaks while the state releases prison inmates and stuffs kids in overcrowded classrooms for lack of tax revenue.

Ostensibly the tax breaks are for “green” power, but the Oregonian reports today that the Seneca biomass plant will “release more carbon dioxide and lung-damaging particulates than a comparable coal-fired power plant.”

OSU forestry professor Mark Harmon tells the paper that Seneca’s claims that the biomass plant is carbon neutral are “very misleading.”