{"id":2022,"date":"2011-05-17T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/why-biomass-will-never-cleanly-end-jsq.html"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:58:36","slug":"why-biomass-will-never-cleanly-end-jsq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/why-biomass-will-never-cleanly-end-jsq.html","title":{"rendered":"Why biomass will never cleanly end —jsq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nIn Harrisburg, PA, same size as Valdosta, in a county of similar size,\na trash incinerator bit the dust once, but got revived anyway,\nand will now probably only go away because:\n\nHarrisburg, PA loses solvency and trust over incinerator<\/a>.\nThere are many parallels here, especially the old boy network.\nHowever, the main point I want to draw everyone’s attention to\nat the moment is that although local activists may have gotten\nthat incinerator closed down once, it came back anyway.\n

\nWhy?\nBecause their local old boys thought it would make money,\nand\n\n\nthey thought they were so smart they could hire people\nwho could make it work.\nAs the \nNYTimes wrote, they were wrong.<\/a>\nBut it’s in the nature of old boy networks to think they know better.\nBecause if they have worked their way up to be part of the old boys,\nthey must be smarter or more hardworking, right?\n

\nSo am I counselling despair?\nNot at all.\nWhat I am saying is that anyone who thinks there’s ever going to be\na clean end to the local biomass plant will be waiting a long time,\nbecause there will always be old boys who think it will work\nand don’t care about anything health-related beyond the permits.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nSo what am I counselling?\n\nCarrots.<\/a>\nThe very same people who are adamant about building the biomass plant\nhave provided us with the carrots needed to make sure it’s never built.\n\nI will spell out what I mean by that<\/a> in following posts.\n

\nSo does this mean reinforcing the old boy network?\nNo, it means expanding it to include more of the community.\n\nI will spell out what I mean by that, too.<\/a>\nStay tuned.\n

\nTo reiterate.\nThere probably never will be a clean end to the biomass plant.\nThose who oppose it: keep doing that! Vigilance!\nBut that’s not all.\nBecause if that is all, you are using their own framing,\nand reinforcing the biomass supporters in their own minds.\n\nI will spell out what I mean by that, too.<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nYou have to provide something better.\nSomething that will produce energy and jobs and be cleaner.\nFortunately, we know what that is:\n\nsolar for south Georgia!<\/a>\n

\n-jsq\n

\nUpdate 20 May 2011: added links to some of the things I promised to spell out.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Harrisburg, PA, same size as Valdosta, in a county of similar size, a trash incinerator bit the dust once, but got revived anyway, and will now probably only go away because: Harrisburg, PA loses solvency and trust over incinerator. There are many parallels here, especially the old boy network. However, the main point I […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,120,40,14,16,41,19,32,23,24,178,700,1521],"tags":[8738,4559,4242,4131,3056,4558,8712,8714,215,8773],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-community","category-economy","category-environment","category-health-care","category-history","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-vlcia","category-wace","category-wiregrass-solar","tag-biomass","tag-framing","tag-harrisburg","tag-incinerator","tag-old-boys","tag-permits","tag-politics","tag-solar","tag-south-georgia","tag-trash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-wC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}