Don’t you think it’s good for the company if the death threat is received before they’ve spent millions of dollars on construction/procurement? While they can still afford to shift locations to a welcoming community? Don’t you think the consultation process may have alerted the company to the threat of vandalism and sabotage to their project?
If I was building an industrial facility in a small town, I’d want to know the locals’ priorities re: noise vs visual aesthetics vs smells vs funding local community projects so that I could keep the electorate happy and not have to go head to head with a hostile local government making new rules to make my life miserable.
If I was building an industrial facility in a small town
You’ve never held a battery in your hands?
They make no noise.
They produce virtually no smells.
They would be inside featureless buildings.
I don’t know what grid storage you’ve been looking at, but battery storage is usually even more unobtrusive than distribution substations. We’re literally talking about some warehouse-looking building that is eminently forgettable.
Don’t you think it’s good for the company if the death threat is received before they’ve spent millions of dollars on construction/procurement? While they can still afford to shift locations to a welcoming community? Don’t you think the consultation process may have alerted the company to the threat of vandalism and sabotage to their project?
If I was building an industrial facility in a small town, I’d want to know the locals’ priorities re: noise vs visual aesthetics vs smells vs funding local community projects so that I could keep the electorate happy and not have to go head to head with a hostile local government making new rules to make my life miserable.
You’ve never held a battery in your hands?
They make no noise.
They produce virtually no smells.
They would be inside featureless buildings.
I don’t know what grid storage you’ve been looking at, but battery storage is usually even more unobtrusive than distribution substations. We’re literally talking about some warehouse-looking building that is eminently forgettable.
My comment was within the context of the person I was replying to suggesting companies should abandon public consultations all together.
Why would you go through all that when you can just bribe the local officials instead
Because it can be really expensive and risky to bribe local officials