Until recently, Autumn Johnson decided to challenge the demands that put in more detail black power on the grid it was all in one day’s work. “As a naturalist, my job is to make people aware of the old oil refills when we are in the rainy season,” he said.
But earlier this month, when he began publicly criticizing the recent Salt River Project (SRP), one of Arizona’s most important projects, something amazing happened: One of the employees, he says, complained to his boss. Johnson’s experience is not unique, and it sheds light on how practical, other countries are great decision makers on the electronic mindset, can also be one of the most sensitive electronic players, often closing criticism or worrying about their views and decisions – especially those that are featured on TV.
At the end of August, SRP announced its intention to produce 16 new gas units at its power plant, adding 820 megawatts of additional fuel to the grid. SRP is also available he said that that oil power, surprisingly, could help the agency to meet its stability and enhanced electrical objectives. Natural gas is a a major source of methane, greenhouse gases are 80 times worse than carbon dioxide. The seemingly endless program encourages more energy activists, environmentalists, investors, and more people in Arizona.
As part of what he thinks is his role at Western Resource Advocates (WRA), a non-profit dedication to the Southwest, water, and natural resources, Johnson began posting comments on the project. He also said that “because of access to Twitter and television in various ways” and that ordinary people have no “other way back” to practical elections.
Johnson’s SRP tweets are excellent. To start work, click on the tweet questions about SRP preparation and other options that may have been considered before considering the large size of the gas, as well as their comments waiting for the closure of the coal plants. Johnson is not the only one opposed to the new plant: One of the links he shared was a request from the Sierra Club against the work.
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SRP, apparently, was disrupted. Johnson said he was told the council was outraged by its tweets “destroying SRP.” Johnson was told that his actions were “probably contradictory” to what their organization was doing on television and “advised him not to speak.” After that tweeted about the event.
Earther has also reviewed internal WRA letters confirming that a representative from the SRP “identified” Johnson’s WRA tweets. An SRP spokesman said in an email that the company “is unaware of any grievances lodged with its employers,” adding that it “respects the right to free speech” and “receives public comments.” When I asked the WRA about the incident, the spokesperson said the company “has investigated the matter, and [Johnson]The tweets are accurate. ”
Johnson is not an elected official, nor a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public administration. I asked him why he thinks SRP is so frustrated with his likes on Twitter.
“Good question – I don’t know,” he said. “I am a small fish. He gave me a bigger platform than ever. I don’t know if they did this to other people and they never spoke or if I was elected. There are some very violent tweets about this project that you can find on the video. ”
It has been found that Johnson is not alone as a result of being held by a powerful weapon. Keith Kueny, who lives in Portland, Oregon, remained a taxpayer in Oregon, a position he held for seven years. His job was to promote the rights of low-income customers at work meetings. Last fall, Kueny recalled, small demands began to resume suspensions for customers who could not pay their bills, even though the epidemic was still raging and winter was approaching. Kueny also said that many members of the organizations had alliances with commercial and industrial enterprises at a meeting with the diplomatic adviser and representatives of Mid-State Electric, state, nonprofit, to discuss the closure. This led to what he said was a dangerous exchange with a company representative.
“We are democratically elected, we are democratically elected,” Kueny recalled. electing their successors and fellow members.) “I said. meeting is like a Republic of banana. It was as if I had shot someone. ”
The closure resumed after the meeting, Kueny told me. “I heard about the family from the agency I stood for that was linked to 37 cents, in the winter, and the epidemic,” Kueny said. “I was very angry.”
Kueny took to Twitter, sharing a story on personalities, which, he said, represented “the cultural decay of capitalism.” Later, Kueny was told by his supervisor that Mid-State Electric and the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a commercial group, had sent a letter to his boss saying he could not work with him and asked him to be fired. his tweet and comments at the conference. (Kueny retained his position, but, persuasively, he said, deleted the tweet. We spoke to Mid-State Electric and the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association to explain and we will fix this if we hear.)
Meredith Connolly, who also lives in Oregon, is the director of Climate Solutions Nonprofit. The team is focusing on mobile lighting, housing, and other facilities. In 2019, Connolly said, she was writing more and more about electricity and gas as part of a weekly awareness campaign. Shortly afterwards, he received an email from a NW Natural employee, a public trader and a gas salesman based in Portland.
“It said, ‘Someone write me your notes that you can send, they’d like to talk about where we’re going to see and where we’re not going to see,'” Connolly said.
A Natural Resources employee asked to meet for coffee, and Connolly agreed. At the meeting, “I was given my own tweets,” he said. “She was sent by someone to NW Natural, so someone is reviewing what I wrote on Twitter to see what I was saying.”
Connolly recalled one of her tweets about a 2018 natural gas explosion in Massachusetts which killed one person and injured 22 others becoming more involved with the employee.
“The talks started, like, ‘We think we are part of the solution,’ and then the conversation changed to, ‘When you send this, you are creating security, and we see it as important,'” he said. from the gas run northwest of 23. I was on maternity leave walking with my two-month-old baby down that road, and the next day it exploded. ”
Connolly said she refused to remove the tweets, “I said [the employee] that this is part of the treatment – it does not ignore them, and promotes awareness. ”(Earther spoke to NW Natural to explain and change this if we hear of it.)
Connolly said the need to point out what she sees as critical tweets is not uncommon: Her boss has already received phone calls from helpers who are concerned about tweets that contradict their views. But having a printout of his physical tweets that were given to him asking for a change –which is impossible– they were “amazing,” he said.
“It made me wonder – what are they saying or asking the elected officials, if they have such an attitude towards a climate agent?” he said.
There is one way to do this: follow the money. David Pomeranz, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute, also said in an email that it was a global priority they always use their charitable giving intimidating politicians and local groups to do what they want.
“Utilities alone have a long history of using unlimited pottery, which is collected from customers who have nothing to do with it, buying or silencing opponents of their architectural ideas,” Pomeranz said. “While I can’t get into the role of corporate supervisors and promoters at the Salt River Project or anything else, I think history makes them think that any critic is someone who can harass or buy her.”
As with most jobs, it is understandable that nonprofits expect their users to use their imagination on television. But the demands that supply electricity to all parts of the country – many of whom seem to be the only competitors with little competition – need to be challenged and properly monitored. There is a clear objection to the principles that could affect millions of people and things that damage the climate and could endanger lives like gas. Foreign agents should not be bullied by big companies to not just criticize fundraising.
“In other words, it is surprising that the essentials still work with such a thin skin, as environmental advocates and consumers have been criticizing them for years,” Pomeranz said. “But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way: the authorities don’t have to deal with competition like normal businesses, and I think in many business corners, this has made me very proud.”
Johnson has a similar idea. Although the WRA asked him not to proceed with the tweet, he decided to go the other way and announce his affiliation with the SRP. (And even the SRP says worried that Johnson’s tweets could tarnish their image, the team did not vote on Monday allowing the Coolidge-middle expansion to be criticized by Arizona’s largest environmental group.)
“If the need can be met with things like this, it encourages them to try to remain silent and intimidate other people,” he said. “I don’t think this is acceptable.”