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I wonder if they get the same conservative "No Industrial Solar" propaganda that pervades rural Iowa. A little bit of searching seems to indicate rural oppositi
by tstrimple 4y ago
I wonder if they get the same conservative "No Industrial Solar" propaganda that pervades rural Iowa. A little bit of searching seems to indicate rural opposition to renewables to be fairly common.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash-against-renewables-surged-in-2021-with-31-big-wind-and-13-big-solar-projects-vetoed-across-us/?sh=407d7af3bb79 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash...
Republican approval of renewable energy is also dropping year over year and is down 15% from 5 years ago.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americans-support-expanding-solar-and-wind-energy-but-republican-support-has-dropped/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americ...
It seems there is a pretty clear divide in partisan and urban / rural support.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoMost rural people have no problem with industrial development unless it's highly polluting (and by "highly" I mean "orders of magnitude above and beyond what it takes to make people here hand wring"). Declining support for renewable energy seems to be a result of team politics.