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Related: About this forumHere's just one small example of how the fossil fuel industry...
...is working to keep us addicted to CO2 emissions...
Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier-solar-fossil-fuel-metric-media
Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping
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The first article in the Mount Vernon News last fall about a planned solar farm simply noted that residents were expressing their concern. But soon the countys only newspaper was packed with stories about solar energy that almost uniformly criticized the project and quoted its opponents.
Then a new grassroots organization materialized and invited locals to an elaborate event billed as a town hall, with a keynote speaker who denied that humans cause climate change.
Someone sent text messages to residents urging them to stop the solar invasion and elect two county commission candidates who opposed the solar farm. And one day this past March, residents received an unfamiliar newspaper that contained only articles attacking Frasier Solar, a large project that would replace hundreds of acres of corn and soybeans with the equivalent of 630 football fields of solar panels.
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The campaign against solar power benefited from a confluence of two powerful forces funded by oil and gas interests. A former executive at Ariel Corporation, the countys largest employer and one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of methane gas compressors, was working behind the scenes. And helping in a more public way is the Mount Vernon News, a newspaper now in the hands of Metric Media, which operates websites that reportedly engage in pay-to-play coverage.
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Full article at: https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier-solar-fossil-fuel-metric-media
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The first article in the Mount Vernon News last fall about a planned solar farm simply noted that residents were expressing their concern. But soon the countys only newspaper was packed with stories about solar energy that almost uniformly criticized the project and quoted its opponents.
Then a new grassroots organization materialized and invited locals to an elaborate event billed as a town hall, with a keynote speaker who denied that humans cause climate change.
Someone sent text messages to residents urging them to stop the solar invasion and elect two county commission candidates who opposed the solar farm. And one day this past March, residents received an unfamiliar newspaper that contained only articles attacking Frasier Solar, a large project that would replace hundreds of acres of corn and soybeans with the equivalent of 630 football fields of solar panels.
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The campaign against solar power benefited from a confluence of two powerful forces funded by oil and gas interests. A former executive at Ariel Corporation, the countys largest employer and one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of methane gas compressors, was working behind the scenes. And helping in a more public way is the Mount Vernon News, a newspaper now in the hands of Metric Media, which operates websites that reportedly engage in pay-to-play coverage.
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Full article at: https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier-solar-fossil-fuel-metric-media
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Here's just one small example of how the fossil fuel industry... (Original Post)
Think. Again.
Oct 9
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2naSalit
(93,115 posts)1. K&R
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Think. Again.
(18,615 posts)3. We must use every tool we have to eliminate CO2 emissions.
As you know, burning fossil fuels is the enemy, not the power generation tech that can replace that.