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Post #4275943
2025-01-20 00:36 UTC
How to solve local opposition to green development
"Community benefits agreements allow developers to offer tangible economic benefits to local communities — including jobs, wages and funds for environmental protection — in exchange for hosting a project. They are not a new concept in energy development, but they are still relatively rare among clean energy projects, particularly in the Western United States."
https://www.hcn.org/articles/how-to-solve-local-opposition-to-green-development/
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2025-08-16 14:07
“But because we done this process, because we had informed the community, because we had a document as boring as that sounds, a document that listed all of the fears that our community had identified, the impacts that we wanted to address, the opportunities that we saw and how we wanted everyone to behave in this conversation, it meant the developers came in with a real understanding of our community. " https://reneweconomy.com.au/we-set-the-rules-of-engagement-how-one-community-took-control-when-wind-and-solar-came-to-town/