“If Wind turbines go up around here, we’re going to kill everyone in your family.”
It’s an extreme case, but it’s not unique for farmers and landowners in my state of Michigan and across the midwest.
The video above draws on on years of traveling, interviewing, and filming across Michigan and the Midwest, in support of Farmers property rights, and the clean energy transition. In particular it focuses on recent siting reforms in Michigan which attempt to balance the scales in support of clean energy.
Similar measures have been passed in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota.
This year’s agricultural crisis makes it all too clear – farmers need the right to diversify their incomes, and clean energy provides a path. An international campaign of misinformation, harassment and threats has been coordinated by the fossil fuel industry to stop the energy transition, and local farmers and landowners have found themselves in the crosshairs.
Not just in the US, it’s an internationally coordinated campaign, as this Aussie reporter affirms, below.