This Side of The PondOct 9, 2024
Dan Gillmor

In an Ohio town, a "retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.

The media company, a notorious "pink slime" operator, bought the local newspaper and turned it into a propaganda machine.

https://floodlightnews.org/fossil-fuel-interests-solar-ohio/

Superb reporting from a collaboration including ProPublica, Floodlight, and Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

Fossil fuel interests are working to kill Solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping.

A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other

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Oct 9, 2024 at 4:21amWeb
Show threadGrassroots JoeOct 9, 2024

@dangillmor

Should be read while pictures of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene and of the monsterous Hurricane Milton heading for Florida...

Show threadJohn Gordon 📷Oct 9, 2024

@dangillmor It’s about time we found a way to charge these oil & gas companies for the decades of harm they’ve caused, knowing all along what they were doing.

It’s even worse that we’re still letting them continue to lie to people, and use those ill-gotten profits to block progress towards clean, renewable energy.

Worrying about the loss of farmland should be their concern, but not from solar farms. From the planet heating up & crops no longer being able to survive.

Show threadsandywb14Oct 9, 2024
@dangillmor 😡
Show threadFelichsOct 9, 2024

@dangillmor

Sounds like a crazy plotline in an old western TV series...

Tombstone did it...