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Steve Jones, who has lived 45 years at the same address, is among about a dozen people organizing opposition to the River Maple Solar II project. Thirty-five acres of solar panels up to 15-feet tall would be erected in farmland 1,200 feet from Jones' backyard. But it may not matter what Jones and his neighbors think. A controversial bill signed into law in January dramatically reduces the power of county governments to regulate solar and wind farms if the projects meet standards set in the new law.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Dave you have to be one of the lowest IQ individuals I’ve ever met. Please crawl back into your corner so you can’t infect anyone else with your misinformed garbage.
They plan to give government buildings power and let everyone else on the regular grid fight for service after they downgrade the infrastructure.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13042023/inside-clean-energy-solar-array-illinois/
Where do the battery/panel materials come from? (Hint: “evil mining”) Where do these spent materials end up? *(Hint: landfills) Why are some “fossil” materials good while others are bad? (Hint: it’s not about the stated cause)
It’s dark here 6 months out of the year. LOL It’s not going to work and everybody knows it.