I can't wait till we have NIMBY's protesting natural disasters that ruin the scenic "resort"-like setting of their communities.
"I mean we live at a resort, essentially," says Dave Walsh, one of the many Fawn Lake residents organizing against the planned solar farm. One corner of the massive project would butt up against the back of the gated community. Walsh says he supports solar, in theory, but not here.
"It's not in keeping with the type of setting that people bought houses here [for] — they wanted to be out in the woods, essentially," Walsh says.
I can't wait till we have NIMBY's protesting natural disasters that ruin the scenic "resort"-like setting of their communities.
nothing of course says "out in the woods" like living one hour's driving distance away (65 miles) from the district of columbia and its associated metropolitan area.
One important note - the solar farm is not supplying energy for these people. This area is huge, and growing, for massive data centers. Facebook, Amazon, and Apple IIRC have already purchased the...
One important note - the solar farm is not supplying energy for these people. This area is huge, and growing, for massive data centers. Facebook, Amazon, and Apple IIRC have already purchased the electricity from this farm at wholesale rates. These people are prohibited by VA law from organizing and purchasing the electricity at wholesale rates as a group. (Our main utility company, Dominion, which is long on fossil fuels, basically owns 98% of politicians on both sides of the aisle.) More solar and renewables are important, but these people's lives are being impacted with no benefit whatsoever to them.
Climate change is an existential threat and having to put up with maybe seeing some solar panels nearby is about the smallest sacrifice anyone has ever been asked to make to save ourselves....
Climate change is an existential threat and having to put up with maybe seeing some solar panels nearby is about the smallest sacrifice anyone has ever been asked to make to save ourselves. Where's the sense of urgency or, dare I say, duty in these people? Nothing is being asked of them except to not get in the way as other people work hard to solve this problem. They need to escape their bubble mindset that the rest of the world is something separate from them and that our collective problems are somehow not their problems.
I can't wait till we have NIMBY's protesting natural disasters that ruin the scenic "resort"-like setting of their communities.
nothing of course says "out in the woods" like living one hour's driving distance away (65 miles) from the district of columbia and its associated metropolitan area.
One important note - the solar farm is not supplying energy for these people. This area is huge, and growing, for massive data centers. Facebook, Amazon, and Apple IIRC have already purchased the electricity from this farm at wholesale rates. These people are prohibited by VA law from organizing and purchasing the electricity at wholesale rates as a group. (Our main utility company, Dominion, which is long on fossil fuels, basically owns 98% of politicians on both sides of the aisle.) More solar and renewables are important, but these people's lives are being impacted with no benefit whatsoever to them.
Climate change is an existential threat and having to put up with maybe seeing some solar panels nearby is about the smallest sacrifice anyone has ever been asked to make to save ourselves. Where's the sense of urgency or, dare I say, duty in these people? Nothing is being asked of them except to not get in the way as other people work hard to solve this problem. They need to escape their bubble mindset that the rest of the world is something separate from them and that our collective problems are somehow not their problems.