My first thought was, "Who is bankrolling this propaganda?" That it's apparently not a grift and instead the result of Fasulo being an ideologue is perhaps more concerning. She can play dumb all she wants, but it definitely seems like she's practiced in tailoring her perspective so as not to alienate members of her follower base, coopting progressive language in the progress. Unsettling business.
I used to have a paid subscription. I just resubscribed for one year. I cannot afford to maintain a regular subscription but reporting of this caliber should be rewarded and this is the best I can do. Thank you, Alex Hannaford and thank you, Emily for your important work.
Several solar farms have gone up near me in upstate New York over the past 5 years. The land was unused and the owners gone. I have had so many conversations with people about how the land is being stolen...this woman is feeding that misconception. No one cared about empty fields until the solar panels went up. I have read some of her op eds and she is not only bank rolled by someone but also spreading false information. She should spend her time fighting against Micron which is building a huge factory near me...they will suck the grid and water dry here. We need the solar panels to keep our grid strong here! I am worried about all the actors like her out there who are spewing fake data and news...we also need this administration out and install one that is ready to help in the fight against climate change. Great article!
Alex did a fantastic job of methodically walking us through the initial house of cards to show the conspiratorial foundations that it is built on. Great job of showing how blindered this lady is and how uninterested she is in understanding the context of why we are pursuing solar in the first place. These "deep state" questions apply to any large scale project anywhere, and to single out a solar project's fast track status, while important to document and make sure the local needs and concerns are addressed, apply to data centers, mainstream energy projects, highway projects, and large scale commercial projects in general. This is corporate capitalism (or is it corporate socialism?) at work.
Locally, we have a group using similar tactics against a solar farm proposal being proposed on prime farmland, using destruction of that farmland as a reason to oppose it. But the proposed land is used to grow fertilizer and herbicide intensive corn with soybean rotation to produce commodities for exporting for balance of trade reasons, and the solar farm has the potential for agrivoltaics, providing a permanent ground cover with pollinator plantings around the panels, so I have to ask: which is better use of that prime farmland?
My first thought was, "Who is bankrolling this propaganda?" That it's apparently not a grift and instead the result of Fasulo being an ideologue is perhaps more concerning. She can play dumb all she wants, but it definitely seems like she's practiced in tailoring her perspective so as not to alienate members of her follower base, coopting progressive language in the progress. Unsettling business.
I used to have a paid subscription. I just resubscribed for one year. I cannot afford to maintain a regular subscription but reporting of this caliber should be rewarded and this is the best I can do. Thank you, Alex Hannaford and thank you, Emily for your important work.
Several solar farms have gone up near me in upstate New York over the past 5 years. The land was unused and the owners gone. I have had so many conversations with people about how the land is being stolen...this woman is feeding that misconception. No one cared about empty fields until the solar panels went up. I have read some of her op eds and she is not only bank rolled by someone but also spreading false information. She should spend her time fighting against Micron which is building a huge factory near me...they will suck the grid and water dry here. We need the solar panels to keep our grid strong here! I am worried about all the actors like her out there who are spewing fake data and news...we also need this administration out and install one that is ready to help in the fight against climate change. Great article!
Yikes and thank you. Yet another super tangled web of a story that should be on the front page of almost every newspaper.
Alex did a fantastic job of methodically walking us through the initial house of cards to show the conspiratorial foundations that it is built on. Great job of showing how blindered this lady is and how uninterested she is in understanding the context of why we are pursuing solar in the first place. These "deep state" questions apply to any large scale project anywhere, and to single out a solar project's fast track status, while important to document and make sure the local needs and concerns are addressed, apply to data centers, mainstream energy projects, highway projects, and large scale commercial projects in general. This is corporate capitalism (or is it corporate socialism?) at work.
Locally, we have a group using similar tactics against a solar farm proposal being proposed on prime farmland, using destruction of that farmland as a reason to oppose it. But the proposed land is used to grow fertilizer and herbicide intensive corn with soybean rotation to produce commodities for exporting for balance of trade reasons, and the solar farm has the potential for agrivoltaics, providing a permanent ground cover with pollinator plantings around the panels, so I have to ask: which is better use of that prime farmland?
Thank you for covering this complex issue, and for doing the extensive research as well.