{"id":10234,"date":"2015-07-20T07:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:09:03","slug":"dirty-energy-vs-clean-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10234","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/176021\/tomgram%3A_ellen_cantarow%2C_paradise_lost_--_or_found\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/music\/song.cfm?id=208\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Taxi<\/a>\u201d to fit this moment in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. There, Big Energy seems determined to turn paradise, if not into a parking lot, then into a massive storage area for fracked natural gas. But there\u2019s one way in which that song doesn\u2019t quite match reality. Mitchell famously wrote, \u201cDon&#8217;t it always seem to go that you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve got till it&#8217;s gone.\u201d As part of a growing global struggle between Big Energy and a movement focused on creating a fossil-fuel-free future, however, the residents of the Finger Lakes seem to know just what they\u2019ve got and they\u2019re determined not to let it go. As a result, a local struggle against a corporation determined to bring in those fracked fuels catches a changing mood not just in the United States but across the world when it comes to protecting the planet, one place at a time, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to imagine a more picturesque landscape, a more tranquil locale, a more bucolic garden spot than the Finger Lakes region. Each year, it draws tens of thousands of tourists to gaze at the waterfalls in Watkins Glen, to kayak and canoe in its deep waters, to dine in its farm-to-table restaurants and enjoy the homespun hospitality of its bed and breakfasts. Lush vineyards rustle on tree-studded hillsides.\u00a0<em>Wine Enthusiast<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/northforker.com\/2014\/10\/28\/new-york-state-wine-enthusiast-magazines-wine-region-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">gave it<\/a>\u00a0top honors last year, calling it \u201cone of the most vibrant and promising wine regions of the world.\u201d There are fruit and vegetable farms and sugar maples, too. In 2013, the state\u2019s maple syrup production ranked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fingerlakesdailynews.com\/news\/details.cfm?id=81801#.VXBzr0vudFI\" target=\"_blank\">second only<\/a>\u00a0to Vermont\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power\u00a0 The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake Let\u2019s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cYellow Taxi\u201d to fit this moment in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. There, Big Energy seems determined to turn paradise, if not into a parking lot, then into a massive storage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2140,141,263,7412,331,643,5658,7413,6462,834],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-big-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-finger-lakes","tag-fracking","tag-power","tag-seneca-lake","tag-tomdispatch","tag-tomgram","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10235,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}