Friday Night Web Picks--Keeping the Lights OnBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Activists against the proposed Ash Landfill gathered and made the news on WKBT and WXOW. Click the nice videos from the main story.
The producers of the movie Keeping the Lights On have released a short on Google Video. If you missed the various showings of the full video (complete with conversation with those_opposed to the ash pit siting in Vernon County,) then here is the short. [ed. note: I originally posted the second video below (sent to me by the producers,) but this first video is actually the latest. Thanks to Scott for the correction.]
A statement from the producers is in the full story...
It seems as if Wisconsin's electric utilities are racing to build new or retrofit bygone era coal-burning power plants before new emission regulations attempt to penalize the foolishness of such endeavor. This is not a good faith effort by our public utilities to transition our state's energy portfolio towards a cleaner, more sustainable future. It is more like an addict pumping up before supply is cut off. It is also a cynical business decision based on the assumption that any project completed or in the works will be grandfathered.
Most people don't know how the electricity they use is produced. In Wisconsin, more than 70% of the electricity is produced by burning coal. Coal is abundant, and coal is cheap. But it is cheap only if the environmental and societal impacts are disregarded. 'Keeping the Lights On' begins its look at the impacts of coal burning on the day that representatives from Dairyland Power Cooperative in Genoa, Wisconsin knocked on farmers' doors and told them, "Your farm has been chosen as a landfill site." Within the story of the community’s resistance to the landfill project, the film explores the reasons this electric utility seeks a waste dump, and will make you question why we are still burning coal in the 21st century. Downtown Dailies/blue studio Documentary & Advocacy Video Madison WI www.downtowndailies.com |
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