BP's Open House ~ a page out of the Wind Development playbook

Marion Trieste

 2008, British Petroleum hired Marion Trieste to do "outreach work”  part of this outreach work involved the establishment of Voters for Wind (VFW).

  Trieste claims to have a formula for making a project work for the developer.  

The Open house scheduled for Saturday  is right out of Marion Trieste’s Wind development play book.

 Marion participated in a COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE OF WIND WEBINAR

July 2, 2009. The following is a portion of a transcript from the Webinar.

In Marion's own words 

This is an example of what we could do. Let's say the developer decides to hold a public information session like such as an open house we call them.  And so they're there with their technical experts meeting the community members in a very, you know, very easy non-aggressive and easy flowing kind of forum where there's no real finger pointing opportunities.  You're not speaking with a microphone so people can't come after you and start accusing you of being, you know, the foreign company taking advantage of local people. Basically it's a four-hour session that we like to have, three or four hour session, so people can come and go as they please, and talk to the developer.  And if you happen to be organized early and have your support group with you, you know, it'd be great to even have them table at your open house and at the time of tabling, they maybe want to organize a bus trip to a local wind farm and, you know, they just try to grab their community representatives to come to their meetings and such. So it's just a really great way of educating people and using a support network.

Link here to complete transcript of the webinar

 COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE OF WIND