As the solstice passes and the earth begins to tilt back towards the sun (for us northern hemispherians anyway), the winds of change are kicking up. Sun, winds…see where I’m going with this one?
And so it was that on this winter solstice things started heating up in Meigs County, Ohio. A community activist named Elisa Young has been organizing with the Meigs Community Action Network to fight 3-5 proposed coal-fired power plants within 10 miles from her farm, related mining underneath Meigs, and the four coal plants already there.
Elisa just got a sweet media hit at The Athens News, focusing mostly on her and the group. She got in such gems as:
“People don’t think that we have any other options,” she said. “My view is if power plants create jobs, and we have four that you can throw a rock and hit, we should be rolling in prosperity.”
“The reason we are in the fix we’re in is because of the coal-mining industry that is around us. To me, if you want to get out of a hole, you quit digging.”
-Read the whole Opposition mounting against power plants article
-Previous IGHIH post about Elisa’s work with students involved in the Campus Climate Challenge
