• Hexbatch@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m going to assume the community gets poison while the factory cranks out batteries, and delivers few jobs or taxes?

    I’m also going to assume the community recognizes this but hopes to improve their area with new education and other investment? Or a lot of people were bribed ?

    Am I wrong ?

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      4 months ago

      A small town near out together an incentive package for a wind farm that was shopping itself around the country.

      They imminent-domained hundreds of tiny plots of land from local farmers so a billion-dollar wind installation could go up without paying the farmers, and in return the city received $200,000 it used to paint a school, and the peoject it created a whopping 2 full-time jobs after construction was completed.

      And the mayor acted like it was a victory.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      if you think factories are bad wait until you find out what amazon gets away with. They can literally break fire code because nobody cares enough to do anything about having the worlds biggest retailer warehousing in your county/state.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Of course. The pork industry in NC is exactly the same. Tobacco as well.

      NC has a strong Republican majority in the government with a fairly weak Democrat governor. They make bad decisions. I’m not sad I left.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, probably wrong. There’s not a bunch of third party info on the environmental impact this factory will have, and no evidence anyone was bribed. If it makes you feel better, this isn’t their first factory and I couldn’t find any negative news about that factory either. Community leaders were supportive though, and a bunch of jobs were created.

      I did find some articles about the positive environmental impact sodium batteries have from production, to relative ease of recycling, if that makes you feel better.

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      4 months ago

      An issue near me: a major plant is fined every time they exceed emission limits and those fines go back to the community.