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Huh, I wonder if it works on oil companies too, or does the threat of voilence only work on green projects?

The journalist got their two sources, quotes, and met deadline, but they didn't explain what happened.

It's weird the reporter didn't interview opponents. There's a tonne of interesting questions waiting to be answered:

1. Why the hostility?
2. What were the actual objections, from the objectors, not "locals had safety concerns, felt the process was rushed and that Baseload Power wasn't providing adequate information" from a second-hand source.
3. Was there organized opposition? If so, who organized it?
4. How did people find out about the plan?
5. How did people find out about the meeting?

And some harder stuff from the company would have been good:

1. What were the proposed benefits to the town?
2. Where else have they built these things?
3. What's their track record?
4. Why there?
5. How long had the plan been in the works?
6. Who owns the company?

What were the peoples concerns? Why did they hate the idea of this so much? It was surrounded by farms and not like it was a nuclear power plant or something... I'm a little confused by the people's response.

Another win for idiocy. Great. Things are going just great.

That does sound just like the small town Ontario I know

My solution: stop holding public consultations.

We are a nation of laws, not squeaky wheels.

This just reeks of shortsightedness.

Hire a bunch of just-out-of-high-school kids, give them a bunch of training about the proposed solution, to go door to door in groups or two or three, telling the neighbours about it. Keeps the kids busy, and folks aren't likely to threaten kids with death.

Screw them. Let this be a lesson to any new business that thinks of investing in moving to the area. Kill any chance at a job in the area and let the community rot away.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A Toronto-based power corporation says it's halting its proposal for an eastern Ontario battery storage facility after facing intense local pushback — including someone uttering a death threat during an open house.

The mayor of Elizabethtown-Kitley said while police were called to the meeting — and he regrets how it went down —  Baseload Power ultimately failed to gain traction because it did not consult widely or early enough.

It comes as the Independent Electricity Systems Operator (IESO), which manages the province's energy needs, is soliciting pitches from companies on how to help shoulder Ontario's growing power demands.

Baseload Power proposed to build an eight to 10 hectare lithium-ion battery energy storage system with a maximum generating capacity of 300 megawatts in a rural northern part of Elizabethtown-Kitley, a township bordering Brockville whose southern boundary is more than 100 kilometres south of Ottawa's core.

The project's development would continue, the letter said, while community engagement — including providing reports from experts in the battery energy storage industry — would resume early in 2024.

Sandler said Baseload Power shared information and notices with the township and councillors well in advance of the Nov. 2 open house, where it did not get a chance to talk in detail about the project's benefits.

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