No More Safe U.P.

It's a done deal

Up until now I have been watching the happenings of wars and riots from the security of my forested sanctuary. All those things, those miseries, are happening to other people. They are happening to other people, over there. How sad for those people, over there. I was smug in my safe, natural environment far from miseries of over there. Even the politics and miseries of lower Michigan seemed, well, down there. Our little peninsula was safe from other peoples miseries. Until it isn’t.

Tonight, however, my heart was broken and my world was shattered and so, I learned a valuable lesson. The people over there, know the word “Safety” as a predaceous term touted by talking heads on TV news for Americans. “For your safety,” as American politicians pat themselves in praise every new law, propagandizing the frog as he enjoys sitting in his warm pot of water. Then one day the heat is turned up. The pejorative medias own definition takes a bite out of the frogs warm “safety” flesh leaving his heart bleeding, fearful, no terrorized, that his little comfortable warm pot is no more. Big money is the monster in this case, gives snarly, growling safety his orders and let’s him off his leash. The frogs pot is now in a full rolling boil. Just yesterday I was that frog in a warm pot of water, feeling safe away from the miseries from over there.

Circle Power, an offshoot company owned mostly by an international investment brokerage firm, and my research makes me suspicion of this firm being that of the WEF, now owns three townships within our very rural upper peninsula county. My home.

Circle Power facilitates the acquisition of land, dangling the money carrot to assure proper zoning to suit their projects and oversees the building of their projects. Today it is a solar array. That assiduous representative of a company operates from Troy, Michigan.

When at first this solar farm was brought to my attention I thought it was a joke. The U.P. suffers almost no sunlight from late October until some time in February, then only spoty occurrences of warm sunshine for the next several months. About mid February Lake Superior finally cools down to match air temperatures, the jetstream makes a more southerly trajectory dive and the clouds allow us some reprieve. I am well versed on this because I ran my own greenhouse business for many years. Plants are the perfect teacher, chickens too. For their own reason chickens are much more reluctant to give up her egg on super cloudy days. Plus, we gave solar a run in my greenhouse operating fans on batteries charged by solar panels. It was a very expensive wasted effort. Chemtrailing and Bidens “Dark Skies Initiative” resulted in not enough sun time to charge the batteries most days, had to go back to electric.

Sorry to say, the Circle Power solar farm joke was on me. Our carrot chasing board chose money over its citizens wishes as are so many township boards in neighboring states. Most of our board members had already made their decision with the first approach of Circle Power, one member expressing out loud he saw dollar signs. One of our board members,however, a smart board member actually did his research and chose not to support this audacity to our neighborhood. I thank him! That took courage, you got my vote.

Oh, but the joke was not over just yet. As we are about to be seated at the public action meeting tonight, my phone gave a vibration in my pocket and an almost inaudible ping.

I sat down and took my phone out of my pocket to have a look, thinking I may have a text. It was from an app I have on my phone alerting me to happenings of government.

Michigan News Break. . .

Renewable projects could sidestep local pushback under advancing bills

Read the article here

“LANSING, MI – It’s full steam ahead on legislation to give Michigan state utility regulators the power to approve large-scale renewable energy projects, taking those controls away from local leaders.

Democrats on the state House of Representatives energy committee voted Wednesday, Oct. 18, to advance a suite of bills to the full floor after taking testimony and making several amendments. The proposed legislation would place wind, solar, and power storage projects with a 100-megawatt capacity or more under the control of the Michigan Public Service Commission.”

Now if that don’t beat all! It is amazing sometimes how the universe has a way of grabbing you by the short hairs. The solar array planned for our backwoods peninsula is 120-megawatts. Looks to me like they voted in the devil we know vs. the devil yet to be known.

So why are they making way for useless solar farms where there is very little sunshine and lots of snow, whose known tract record shows increased customer electric bills where they are already established?

Hopefully, we can make some sense out of this in the next episode of “As the Frog Boils.”