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Consensus on Vermont-scale energy
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20120324/OPINION02/703249993/0/OPINION04[font face=Times,Times New Roman,Serif][font size=5]Consensus on Vermont-scale energy[/font]
By JOSH SCHLOSSBERG - Published: March 24, 2012
[font size=3]The warmest March in Burlington’s recorded history is happening. The frigid, snowy winters that thrilled me when I first moved to Vermont at age 17 have become mild and bare, almost disingenuous. What with the recent warm rains, nowadays Vermont seems to experience less of a winter than a “springter.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t need any more climate change wakeups. Two separate “100-year” floods in 2011 did more than change the course of Vermont’s rivers — it changed the minds of a lot of climate skeptics. In 2012, a critical mass of Vermonters are dead serious about reducing the harmful impacts our energy choices have on public health, the environment, and our local economy.
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What does widespread Vermont opposition to Vermont Yankee, Canadian tar sands, natural gas fracking, biomass power incineration, Hydro Quebec, and Lowell Mountain Wind have in common? A Vermont-bred distaste for wasteful, destructive, and expensive industrial-scale energy production. Every day, more and more Vermonters are raising their voices in unison to demand that our state Legislature stop greasing the skids for giant — often out-of-state — industrial energy corporations, which are effectively strangling our local, Vermont-scale energy economy.
Community-scale energy is democratic and local. Industrial-scale energy is top-down and is often in the hands of a few faceless national and international conglomerates.
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By JOSH SCHLOSSBERG - Published: March 24, 2012
[font size=3]The warmest March in Burlington’s recorded history is happening. The frigid, snowy winters that thrilled me when I first moved to Vermont at age 17 have become mild and bare, almost disingenuous. What with the recent warm rains, nowadays Vermont seems to experience less of a winter than a “springter.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t need any more climate change wakeups. Two separate “100-year” floods in 2011 did more than change the course of Vermont’s rivers — it changed the minds of a lot of climate skeptics. In 2012, a critical mass of Vermonters are dead serious about reducing the harmful impacts our energy choices have on public health, the environment, and our local economy.
…
What does widespread Vermont opposition to Vermont Yankee, Canadian tar sands, natural gas fracking, biomass power incineration, Hydro Quebec, and Lowell Mountain Wind have in common? A Vermont-bred distaste for wasteful, destructive, and expensive industrial-scale energy production. Every day, more and more Vermonters are raising their voices in unison to demand that our state Legislature stop greasing the skids for giant — often out-of-state — industrial energy corporations, which are effectively strangling our local, Vermont-scale energy economy.
Community-scale energy is democratic and local. Industrial-scale energy is top-down and is often in the hands of a few faceless national and international conglomerates.
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