Joseph Parnell McCarter, Georgetown Township, volunteer leader of SaveTheCampbell effort.
The Georgetown and Jamestown Township Boards have passed the 2nd round of “Save The Campbell” Resolutions to thwart the misguided Net Zero Agenda in Ottawa County, and more boards are indicating they will as well. The UN’s Net Zero Agenda is about more than just dangerous battery plants, unreliable solar panel fields, and demolition of fossil fuel plants like the Campbell; it is about globalist control. Michigan’s PA 233 law is part of the Net Zero agenda, stripping local governments of the ability to protect our farmlands. Reliable, affordable electric and food from our farmlands are essential for modern life. Stripped of these, we are serfs to a globalist elite.
Consumers Energy is the main avenue for the Net Zero’s implementation in Ottawa County. It will provide the revenues for the battery plant and solar panel field developments now underway as well as those coming. We need to cut off the money train that funds the Net Zero Agenda here. The money train begins with outrageously expensive and rising electric utility bills that Consumers Energy charges their customers, in order to fund their aggressively pursued Net Zero Agenda. The Whitmer-appointed MPSC rewards Consumers Energy executives and investors handsomely to aggressively pursue the Net Zero Agenda. Flush with that money from electric rate payers, Consumers Energy enters into contracts with globalist corporations to build massive dangerous battery storage plants and solar panel field developments in Ottawa County and across Michigan that bypass local control via Michigan’s PA 233 law. We need to cut off this money train by exploring the possible replacement of Consumers Energy in Ottawa County with our own locally controlled electric cooperative, seeking the assistance of the Trump Administration and an AI data center which could use a portion of Campbell’s electric.
Zeeland’s Electric Cooperative has shown a locally controlled electric cooperative can be successfully run at half the price of Consumers Energy residential rates.
We are just beating around the bush if our effort does not centrally include replacing Consumers Energy with a locally controlled electric coop here that will not go along with the Net Zero Agenda. Michigan’s PA 233 law allows globalist corporate developers to bypass local governments if the local government forbids the development, going to the MPSC instead. Furthermore, the development process is generally allowed to proceed even during litigation over PA 233, so it has limited value as a delaying tactic. Finally, the reality is that the Michigan Supreme Court leans liberal Democrat, so in all likelihood they are going to rubberstamp Net Zero developments. There is the option of overturning PA 233, but that requires Republicans doing very well in a political year that is likely an uphill battle to win statewide.
Thanks for placing on your agenda the 2nd round of Campbell Resolutions. Please pass them so that as a County we can seriously investigate getting off Consumers Energy’s Net Zero Agenda.