I'm telling you this not because I read about it or I saw it on tv. It's happening to me and my neighbor's right now. The politicians, the utility companies, the data moguls are all on tv, the internet, newspapers saying they aren't raising rates, sucking water or destroying property values, but they are. It's happening right in front of us. They are bulldozing corrnfields, erecting 100 foot tall poles that are 4 feet in diameter on people's front lawns, next to their driveways, nobody asked, nobody notified anyone...nothing. They just set up camp on a vacant lot with a mobile office and brought in a hundred big cherry picker trucks and piles of those giant poles.
Down the road, they doubled or quadrupled the size of all the power terminals and transformer stations. Lying to our faces. There isn't a fckng thing we can do about it. Now I wonder if farmers will even be able to draw groundwater when that thing is up.
As teens, me and mine kept on of the last patches of wooded area in the neighborhood construction free for years. 3 different developers tried, all 3 failed. Depends on how far the locals are willing to go.