- Nik282000 ( @nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 38•7 months ago
Huh, I wonder if it works on oil companies too, or does the threat of voilence only work on green projects?
- Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) 22•7 months ago
They just call
securitythe Mounties on you. - saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 9•7 months ago
I have always thought it would be incredibly easy for terrorists to shutdown oil pipelines if they tried. 1000’s of km of completely isolated unguarded pipeline. But Sabotage would be devastating to the local environment, even if it would save the global one long term.
- Daniel Quinn ( @danielquinn@lemmy.ca ) English8•7 months ago
It doesn’t have to be environmentally damaging. Years ago there was a group called “valve turners” who just closed emergency shut off valves all over the place.
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 months ago
I agree but I also wouldn’t call something like that terrorism either. Turning a valve can be reversed in seconds, some sort of destructive sabotage could take months to repair.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 5•7 months ago
shutdown
shut down
- MeowWeHaveAProblem ( @MeowWeHaveAProblem@toast.ooo ) English19•7 months ago
What were the peoples concerns? Why did they hate the idea of this so much? It was surrounded by farms and not like it was a nuclear power plant or something… I’m a little confused by the people’s response.
- HikingVet ( @HikingVet@lemmy.ca ) 16•7 months ago
It’s new, and they bought into the idea that because it’s new it’s bad.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@futurology.today ) English20•7 months ago
I guarantee they were fed at least in part by conspiracy theories off of Facebook, spread by pro-oil groups. The article mentions something about older, more toxic battery systems which these were confused for.
Because it’s new and green, and green is for sissies!
- nyan ( @nyan@lemmy.cafe ) English5•7 months ago
Lithium batteries are complicated, and the article is not very specific. I assume this site was going to use LiFePO4, which is no more unstable than NiMH, but the other chemistries, like lithium-cobalt, tend to catch on fire when mishandled. Guess which is on the news more, and therefore which a group of people who weren’t interested in battery chemistries would have heard of? 🙄
- MeowWeHaveAProblem ( @MeowWeHaveAProblem@toast.ooo ) English3•7 months ago
Ya, thats probably true. I always hope there is some type of rational thought to this behavior that I havent thought of. But I doubt it here. Only thing I can think of is they wouldn’t like the look of it. Hardly a reason to go as far as dealth threats…
- Auzy ( @Auzy@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months ago
I’ve noticed the same people who always have a issue with batteries are ones who are Motorheads, whose only ability to get attention is by having the most powerful car (and the loudest).
Electric cars however don’t make noise, so they can’t simply spend money on a loud one to get noticed, and they probably can’t get a big one, because they don’t have as much capacity. We’re going to possibly see people such as in the new electric mustang who associate with new car communities.
The petrol car communities have seemingly created an echo chamber for themselves where they literally have even started to believe the nonsense they’ve been spouting, which includes the misconception that lithium batteries are blowing up all over the place. They aren’t…
- Diplomjodler ( @Diplomjodler@feddit.de ) 17•7 months ago
Another win for idiocy. Great. Things are going just great.
- Pxtl ( @Pxtl@lemmy.ca ) English9•7 months ago
My solution: stop holding public consultations.
We are a nation of laws, not squeaky wheels.
- m0darn ( @m0darn@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 months ago
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.
- rekabis ( @rekabis@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
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.
- m0darn ( @m0darn@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
My comment was within the context of the person I was replying to suggesting companies should abandon public consultations all together.
- Splitdipless ( @Splitdipless@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
Small cells and industrial plants are different. Charging some cells produces an off-gas of hydrogen, which requires you to change the air in the room with the cells, which means fans. You also have to ensure that the temperature of the room stays within certain bounds, which could mean bigger fans.
In terms of cells, batteries don’t really smell like anything I find. However, you need to top up the water levels which requires distilled or deionized water. Will they be doing water treatment on site?
All that being said, there’s more than enough room for a discussion about concerns. These yokels jumped right to death threats instead of progress. I wish nothing but rolling blackouts and a lack of jobs for them in the future.
- Rodeo ( @Rodeo@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
Why would you go through all that when you can just bribe the local officials instead
- m0darn ( @m0darn@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
Because it can be really expensive and risky to bribe local officials
- LyD ( @LyD@lemmy.ca ) 8•7 months ago
That does sound just like the small town Ontario I know
- AnotherDirtyAnglo ( @AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca ) 6•7 months ago
This just reeks of shortsightedness.
Hire a bunch of just-out-of-high-school kids, give them a bunch of training about the proposed solution, to go door to door in groups or two or three, telling the neighbours about it. Keeps the kids busy, and folks aren’t likely to threaten kids with death.
- Splitdipless ( @Splitdipless@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months ago
Screw them. Let this be a lesson to any new business that thinks of investing in moving to the area. Kill any chance at a job in the area and let the community rot away.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Toronto-based power corporation says it’s halting its proposal for an eastern Ontario battery storage facility after facing intense local pushback — including someone uttering a death threat during an open house.
The mayor of Elizabethtown-Kitley said while police were called to the meeting — and he regrets how it went down — Baseload Power ultimately failed to gain traction because it did not consult widely or early enough.
It comes as the Independent Electricity Systems Operator (IESO), which manages the province’s energy needs, is soliciting pitches from companies on how to help shoulder Ontario’s growing power demands.
Baseload Power proposed to build an eight to 10 hectare lithium-ion battery energy storage system with a maximum generating capacity of 300 megawatts in a rural northern part of Elizabethtown-Kitley, a township bordering Brockville whose southern boundary is more than 100 kilometres south of Ottawa’s core.
The project’s development would continue, the letter said, while community engagement — including providing reports from experts in the battery energy storage industry — would resume early in 2024.
Sandler said Baseload Power shared information and notices with the township and councillors well in advance of the Nov. 2 open house, where it did not get a chance to talk in detail about the project’s benefits.
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