By Robert Bradley Jr.
“Although Martis’ campaign has not received much national media coverage, clean energy advocates say it is actively hindering the fight against climate change in the Midwest. One clean energy executive told HEATED and Distilled that if Martis got to a community before them, their projects would almost certainly be blocked by the local government. The CEO requested anonymity for fear of being targeted by Martis.” (Drill, below)
“This piece is part of a new wave of attacks on people like me who advocate fair positioning for renewable energy projects. This new assault is being fueled by current efforts in the Midwest by the renewable energy corridor to strip away local control over wind and solar zoning precisely because it is clearly fell out of favor and faced more backlash than ever before. (Martis, below)
“Meet the man who pushed the clean energy protest in the Midwest” via Michael Thomas is the latest from Boil, which describes itself as “A newsletter for people who are angry about the climate crisis.” The subtitle of Thomas’s article is: “Kevon Martis and a group of fossil fuel-funded allies have led a decades-long campaign to sow fear and misinformation about energy.” renewable quantity. It is working.”
Thomas’ insinuations were old innuendo: that Kevon Martis was a fossil fuel enthusiast, an extremist and [fill in the blank]. In fact, Martis can and has been described as a heroic citizen, awakening its ordinary people to the industrialization of primitive things for bad, unnecessary energy. (For more on Martis, see This.) And what he’s doing is happening around the country, as Robert Bryce updates at his website Database refuses to regenerate.
Some quotes from Boil next paragraph, followed by a rebuttal from Kevon Martis:
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- [Kevon Martis is] the public face of one of the most influential anti-regeneration efforts in the country.
- “Backed by a small group of allies—many of whom receive money from the fossil fuel industry—Martis has helped pass dozens of laws that prohibit or severely restrict clean energy development in towns and counties throughout the Midwest.”
- “Although Martis’s campaign has not received much national media coverage, clean energy advocates say it is actively hindering the fight against climate change in the Midwest.”
- One clean energy executive told HEATED and Distilled that if Martis got to a community before them, their projects would almost certainly be blocked by the local government. The CEO requested anonymity for fear of being targeted by Martis.
- “… advertising helped IICC win its first win. In July 2011, Riga pass one of the country’s most restrictive wind turbine ordinances, effectively banning wind power projects in the region. Martis quickly expanded the campaign, eventually helping to pass similar edicts in nine other towns and counties.
- ‘…” IICC successfully blocked a law that would require utilities in Michigan to generate 25% of their energy from renewables by 2025.”
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- “To pass these laws, he used misinformation and fear-based tactics, which would lead to the division of the entire community.”
- “Martis declined to be interviewed for this story. In an email to HEATED and Distilled, he expressed outrage at being described as an opponent of clean energy. He wrote: ‘Objective ‘journalists’ do not issue derogatory terms such as ‘opposition to clean energy’. At the bottom of the email, he added “#fail #bias”.”
- “Today Martis… continues to run advertising campaigns asking people to block solar and wind projects and regularly spreads misinformation on Facebook.”
- “Martis has said that his overall strategy is to instill fear in the politicians who favor renewable energy. In a recent time Facebook post, wrote Martis, ‘Your county commissioners will not be moved by the truth. They will be moved by political fear.’”
- “Martis attended an event in Washington DC with some of the country’s most influential climate deniers.”
- Misinformation has been an important part of the IICC’s strategy from the outset. As part of their first campaign, the group purchased a TV ad claiming that a proposed wind farm in southeast Michigan could “harm your family’s health, significantly reducing property value and damage TV and radio signals, which can deprive your family of vital safety. warning.”
The whole attack on Martis was This. But obviously, climate alarmists and forced energy transitionists (whose whole agenda depends on government coercion) don’t like Martis succeeding at playing the political ball like Surname. Climate exaggeration and extremism are fine, but not Martis’ fact-based presentations and tracks that expose the economic and ecological downsides of intermittent, phased energy sources. diluted, supported by the government.
Congratulations Kevon Martis!
Rebuttal from Martis
Kevon Martis emailed me these quick points, reproduced below.
- This is a re-edit of every bogus bestseller ever printed about me. This is the latest in a long string of eco-driver attacks dating back to the days of Mike Barnard, David Anderson and Peter Sinclair.
- The work quotes me out of context in many places, especially in the way it tries to portray me as an instigator of violence. I have never supported violence.
- I help communities, largely at my expense, because as a Christian (and not a very nice person), I believe that when someone asks for help and I have the means to help help, I should help.
- My Facebook quote refers to acts of violence Because of others serving as a cautionary tale for lawmakers seeking to force high percentages of utility-scale wind and solar projects into rural communities is not incitement. It is an exaggerated way to draw attention to the forces unleashed by the senseless devastation of the countryside or wilderness by giant energy-harvesting machines. I neither condone nor encourage it. But the risk is real. Thus, the true cost of high rates of wind and solar coercion on rural communities is most likely to include the cost of a new state. Not a threat, not a provocation: an observation
- The article continues a common theme that those who oppose the clearing of wilderness in rural areas due to wind and solar development, pejoratively referred to as “opposers” are terrorists. fathers at the border, and somehow I am personally responsible for instigating them.
- I have seen outrageous behavior by people at local meetings where wind and solar projects are being proposed and opposed. Nine out of ten times, the bad guys are solar/wind lessors, and at least once I had to send a deputy sheriff to force the attorney representing Invenergy to stop disrupting people’s meetings. local people.
- This piece paints a picture of a man-I-who seems to possess so much dark persuasive power, akin to Grima Worm Tongue, that only one talk of partitioning lasts 40 minutes can turn a crowd of renewable energy advocates into fossil fuel-fascinated Martis flatters. If I had that kind of strength, I’d be in Zermatt right now in front of the fireplace watching the snow fall, spending my vast fortune accumulated from a fantastic career in PR and marketing, not practicing fix everyone’s bathroom!
- The truth is, 2,000 acre solar farms around people’s homes or 4 towns with 600′ tall wind turbines are despised by people all over the world. And since I’m not omnipotent and I’m not multilingual, I can’t be blamed for the “opposition” in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, England or Shirt.
- The saddest part of the piece was the false claim of my neighbor John Tuckerman, who claimed that I was a frustrated housewife who avenged my own town when it rejected a development proposal. mine. In other words, “If I can’t develop my housing, I’ll take your wind turbines.” The fact that I have never registered for or proposed any such development and do not own or have any interest in any buildable area in my town at that time. that point. The claim is simply a lie – and not a new thing but an old one.
- This piece is part of a new wave of attacks on people like me who advocate fair positioning for renewable energy projects. This new assault is being fueled by current efforts in the Midwest by the renewable energy corridor to strip away local control over wind and solar zoning precisely because it is clearly fell out of favor and faced more backlash than ever before.
- While they failed in Indiana on their first attempt, they have both succeeded in Illinois and are trying in Michigan. These best-sellers were sold to sympathetic state legislators and the bottom line was: We need the state to control the zoning of wind and sun because One is blocking all development and One cannot have such power. And that person is me.
- The truth is that in Michigan, even with town-level planning control and despite all the opposition these projects are promoting in rural communities, the wind industry in particular has succeeded. more iron in the ground in Michigan than in the states. like Ohio and Wisconsin, who actually have state control over the renewable energy site
- Ultimately, this piece portrays me as an evil, red-toothed and clawed villain, inciting the frenzied mobs of “Anti-Clean Energy” zombies around the Midwest with mythical claims about Health impacts, wind turbine cancer and environmental pollution spread from PV solar arrays. The truth is much more mundane. I talk about wind or solar zoning for 40-60 minutes, answer questions and then go home. The links to the two talks are This And This. Don’t be fooled by the catchy click-bait headline: Zoning for Utility Scale Solar: What Michigan Towns Need to Know
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