July 2, 2009
Recently a friend sent me a link to a webinar
The featured speaker on this webinar was none other than Marion Trieste
wind facilitator and wind opposition buster.
Trieste works for top tier industrial wind companies such as BP and typically she is brought in to industrial wind targeted communities where the proposed development has become controversial. Trieste has a formula for making a project work for the developer. “Grassroots organization”
Trieste tells developers,
“we really have to invest in the public”. “you’re only going to increase your odds of success if you're investing in our host communities.”
In 2008 British Petroleum hired Trieste to do "outreach work” and this is when and why she established Voters For Wind (VFW).
Trieste talks about her favorite group Voters for Wind, saying,
“they actually established themselves two years ago.
“And I worked with them with a BP wind power project here.” “BP was - is the developer that I'm - I've been working with here.”
“it’s all - it's all about the messenger, right.”These groups work well because the developer may be seen as having other goals in mind such as profit
Trieste Creates a pro - wind coalition or network by holding small private gatherings with landowners, that are not open to the public , arming landowners with generic information about the development process ,crafted to debunk the myths about Property values. Birds, Sound etc.
At these gatherings they formulate their mission to go out and educate
people and to get them to show their support for the proposed wind development.
They promote the notion that they have altruistic motives in their desire to push a
developers project and not because they are gaining financially from it;
“it just warms my heart to watch what's - what evolves with connecting people to each other in a community.”
Trieste tells the developers, to distance themselves, so they don’t taint the process,
people may think they are being used by the wind developers.
“At GEOS we call ourselves like a little buffer between the wind farm developer who's our client and those on the ground who are basically those most impacted in the local communities.”
“So we can do a lot more good out there if we are seen as independent and are and acting as independent individual grassroots organizations.”
Additionally Trieste stressed the importance of the economics of wind. Money is a method used to promote the project as well. “Money talks” this is where the host benefit packages come into play as she characterized our area as little Appalachia.
Trieste used the webinar as an opportunity to engage in exploitation of community division describing the typical industrial wind opponents, as
wealthy short term summer residents, retired Wall Street attorney types from
New Jersey and New York City that do not care about the community, jobs or
taxes.
“they just care about their viewshed”
In contrast to the characterization of the Anti- wind Trieste describes the pro wind, as the downtrodden silent majority, farmers struggling to survive .People who are invested in the community and have been invested in the land for generations and now their grandkids are never going to be able to live here because there’s nothing for them .
“they get it.”Additionally, Trieste would like to educate our children about industrial wind as well.
“I can't emphasize enough that we need to be more and more in our schools.to get young people involved, Let's go and let's shame the older generation into doing this.”
Link here to the US DEPARTMENT of ENERGY website and Trieste's ~ transcript & webcast
10 comments:
Every time I think of a community organizer coming into our town to help Bp take us over a little vomit rises into my throat.
Will the VFW be required to produce their financial records as part of the lawsuit?
Dear Marion,
I have just found out that my mortgage is underwater because of the impact of Wolfe Island turbines on my home value. I can't even sell it.
Could you please help me organize my check book?
This stinks. All of what VFW has done is the same stuff described by Trieste. It says VFW in Cape and Lyme are just a bunch of wind zombies. They haven't had an idea of their own. It sounds like everything they do is based on Marions say so. Must be she told them to sue you bloggers to.
This is the most vile, insidious, contemptible, disgusting stuff I’ve seen.
I knew, of course, that this crap was going on. All you had to do was listen to the green shirts recite their lines to know somebody was putting scripted talking points in their mouths.
But to have it all laid out here – in written form – a professional strategy for how to divide and conquer is blood boiling. If I ever see this “lady” again she is going to hear a few very unscripted lines from me.
Do you think the community organizer will bring us all together? In a court room?
Anon 7:50 AM said, "This is the most vile, insidious, contemptible, disgusting stuff I’ve seen."
Wait, there is more. Look at this Wind Wise Educational Curriculum that was paid for and advertised by NYSERDA:
http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/en/Page-Sections/Schools/School-Power-Naturally/Wind-Resources/~/media/Files/EEWD/Schools/Lessons/WindWise/Lesson%2013.ashx
Got to page 6 and look at this:
"For example, Trieste Associates has helped citizens organize groups such as Voters for Wind in New York
that educates the public about the beneits of renewable energy resources. Voters for Wind filed and won a law suit against the elected officials who voted to prohibit a wind farm in the Town of Lyme, New York."
This really pisses me off. BP funds Trieste, who organizes Voters for Wind. BP and Trieste undoubtedly encouraged, endorsed, maybe even paid for Voters for Wind suing the Town of Lyme. This is ballyhooed as a legitimate tactic by NYSERDA, an affiliated agency of New York State.
What' with NYSERDA funding this curriculum that encourages corporations and their consultants to organize groups to sue town governments?
VFW stinks. Trieste stinks, but BP stinks worse.
Maybe Trieste want the town budget so she can prepare economic info that show how everybody in the town would get rich.
She is behind the times. The CV turbine economic impact committee report tell a different story. Gary King claimed in public that they did their own study that debunked everything the Cape committee did. He id not attend any of the early meetings and showed up once or twice during the end.
Gary claims he does not have a wind contract, but he has a wife that does.
Talk about grass roots.
The Bp community organizer through her efforts has helped bring the anti-wind together into a solid bond that will defend themselves vigorously against the onslaught of Bp as they try to challenge our right to rule our own town.
Put a couple bucks in an envelope and
send it to:
Blogger's Defense Fund
Box 8
Three Mile Bay, NY 13693
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