How Fossil Fuel Communities in the U.S. Are Going Green
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- These coal towns are proving the U.S. can move beyond its dependence on fossil fuels - here’s how they’re going green. 🌎
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Love the conversion to green energy. What will these communities have for income/livelihood once energy production facilities are built? We need some really creative plans to bring people into the workforce for it to truly sustain the people
Workers will still need to maintain all these facilities. They are still producing and selling energy, it is just collected in a different way. These plants and windmills need to be maintained, cleaned and eventually rebuilt. All those workers need to be fed clothed and housed. The more energy they produce and sell the more money they make. As long as someone doesn't get greedy and try to take more for themselves this community will thrive. Or trump will get into office, shut it down and the fake, pro worker clown will ruin this town.
That's not what happened here. Coal Mines were shut due to regulations that crushed the industry and forced their closure. Following that, outside influences saw the decrease in land value, the high foreclosure rate, and the relative presence of wind. This gave them opportunity to lease non-productive land and sub market rates, while out of state companies used tax credit initiatives to install wind turbines in areas that were un-incorporated town ships so that no one could stop them. These wind farms employed less than 5% of the workers that the coal Mines did, for a period of 18 months. They have taken up infinitely more land surface than to coal mine did to produce a fraction of the energy, and in the meantime have dramatically altered the migratory patterns of Elk, Deer, and Antelope.
This is far from a success story. Hannah, Elk Mountian, and Medicine Bow are decimated fractions of what they were in the past.
@kjrude regulations didn't kill coal. That's a lie that repugnicans use to smear regulations. Natural gas and strip mining killed coal. Strip mining requires fewer workers to gather coal close to the surface, rather than sending more workers down a mine. This led to a lot of jobs lost. Fracking was a method that gathered natural gas even cheaper than coal. The price of natural gas became too expensive to be a viable source of energy, and everyone switched over.
@kjrude you're also wrong about the number of jobs they produce. Wind power alone is responsible for more jobs than coal. And the entire renewable sector dwarfs the coal industry. Coal mining jobd peaked in the 1920's. They came up again during the oil crisis in the 70's, but they keep dropping. Youre backing the wrong horse.
@TheJesselopez1981 I do census and demography work to support the expansion of access to healthcare in rural rocky mountain west. I recently concluded a study that resulted in my building the first new hospital in the state since the 1950's. I studied this population expressly because it is exactly in my service sector.
You are factually incorrect. The population has had a steady decline since the 1980's and 90's. The community and its economy have completely collapsed. The jobs are temporary for the purposes of construction only and are held largely by non-local employees who take the funding out of the state when they leave.
Glad to meet you in Saratoga,wy for a bite to eat and I'll take you on a driving tour of the east end of the county.
Is co2 bad?