Energy infrastructure plans must include communities
The failure to include communities in the planning of decisions that affect them will always cause resistance and alienation. When that planning is our energy infrastructure we simply cannot afford to lose the support of our communities. That is why democratic planning approaches should aways be used and governments should never steamroller communities on behalf of corporate interests.
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