Farmland conversion and landfill sites

[danbrotherston]

I have to disagree - there is harm in breaking the local government trust in protecting countryside, but the very large majority of voters will always pick a huge investment project that provides jobs over the environment. If this is the battery plant that rumours say, it would be a gigantic boon to the region.

The real question is why has it been so secret and why couldn’t existing planned industrial land be used? Arguing against pretty good jobs is a political loser every time.

If it isn’t a battery plant and it turns out to be some spa run by Ford’s friends, I take it all back.

I mean, I don't disagree, people make bad decisions all the time.

But I don't see where you actually disagree with anything I've said. (Perhaps you think the plant is worth it...and in that we do disagree, but not in the broader conversation).

If this was developing housing in this context, here, and the general public would be much more against it.

But because it's a large corporation, for some reason we're willing to sacrifice anything. I'm not saying that we don't, I'm lamenting it, and I'm especially lamenting the refusal to actually acknowledge the harms that we are willing to incur for almighty "jobs".

As for whether it's a battery plant, or spa, I don't think matters...neither will change the environmental and cultural damage, both will bring jobs, and both reek of corruption, yes, a battery plan would be more greenwashed than a spa...but so what, it's also likely to be more environmentally destructive.