Notice! Gustin Land Takeover Meeting Imminent.
On December 2, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Township Hall located at 113 S. Second St in Lincoln MI 48742 there will be a meeting in which a rich conglomerate Green New Scam corporation out of Illinois will ask the people of Gustin township to allow them to take advantage of them and make no concessions for the people.
They wish to ask the people to agree to bring their ugly 7-foot chain-link fencing perhaps only 50 feet from the borders of the land instead of 200 feet. 50 feet is smaller than a typical city lot. 200 feet may allow a bit of obfuscation of industrial equipment from those who do not wish to be inundated with ugly industrial blight in a beautiful area filled with forests and farmland. If this industrial blight must exist on our farmlands, it should be able to be hidden as much as possible. Though truly, you and I both know that it will be obvious, ugly, and will reduce the value of the land surrounding it.
Why else would the Farmland and Open Space Preservation Program exist? Farmland has intrinsic and foundational value, folks. Why is no one in authority asking why this devastation upon our local farmland being allowed to transpire?
They also wish to ask the people to agree to a 50-decibel limit at the neighboring home. 50 decibels may not sound like a lot but, when you are used to zero decibels, you will need to accept and adjust to an electric hum noise equivalent to a refrigerator running 24/7 365 right outside your open windows. This will be quite audible to neighbors who receive zero benefit, as they try to sleep with windows open on cool, comfortable Alcona summer nights.
This doesn’t even take into account the additional EMF and very real detriments to health that neighbors will be undoubtedly inundated with. Where there is electrical hum, there is also EMF. Where there is industrial equipment, there is also industrial waste. Will it effect the water tables? What happens if they leech PFAS into the groundwater?
Why is the St. Clair County Health Department fighting back while we are not??? Sure seems that the truth is being hidden from the public in a big way here. Read more about the Health Department’s stance and the beginning of the fight there on this very real health issue of solar fields below:
Why do blight ordinances exist, if not to protect the majority of citizen’s property value?
Moreover, it is clear that blight ordinances are in place to serve the few, and should be repealed if they are going to allow the few to profit at the expense of the entire township. Township officials clearly do not care about the appearance of the land if they seek to transform the majority of their township into an industrial wasteland to receive a one-time windfall of Green New Deal bucks from the State via the outgoing Federal Government’s Globalist administration.
To any who do not have this windfall available to them, this is empirically blight. In case you’re wondering, “blight” is defined in a legal sense as “Blight is a legal term used to describe the deteriorated or distressed condition of a property or area that poses a threat to public health, safety, or welfare. It typically refers to physical deterioration, but it can also encompass economic, social, or environmental factors.” (Source.) If governments are not going to fight against blight equally, then they should not attack private citizens in any fashion as it is a selective & discriminatory violation, as well as an attack on private property rights.
They should also be rezoning this land to industrial, if this is not already being planned. I’m sure we’ll talk about that more in future articles.
We can fight back. Why aren’t we?
Did you know that “Public Acts 233 and 234 of 2023, which preempt existing local siting authority, set statewide siting standards and grant siting authority for utility-scale renewable energy facilities to the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC)”, has already taken effect on Nov. 29, 2024? More information from the Michigan Townships Association can be found here: https://michigantownships.org/renewable-energy-siting-and-permitting/
As it stands, this industrial land grab will be to the benefit of 36 properties. This sure seems to me to disenfranchise the other 740 members of this specific community who seemingly have no say in the matter. Not only do they seem to lack representation which will fight for them – In fact, they seem to lack leadership capable of running their own meetings. I mean, why does a non-member (a Zoning Administrator) in Adam Brege chair these meetings? Is it because he is more friendly to the NEMCOG representatives? Or…?
Either way, this is in blatant contravention to the Robert’s Rules of Order under which guidelines these meetings are purportedly ascribing to. While he may attend the meeting as a member of the public, and be given time to speak. He should not be chairing meetings. Odd, don’t you think?
https://robertsrules.forumflash.com/topic/44629-non-members-at-an-agm/#comment-264730
If the leadership is capable of running the meetings… Then the question of why someone who is not a part of the committee is running the committee meetings becomes pertinent. And it further makes one ponder if that person who should not be running the committee is doing so for potentially nefarious and self-serving reasons.
Alas, that is another question for another day…
So… That out of the way, we have some serious questions as to why the Township is not fighting for the majority of the people who reside in Gustin Township and handing a multi-billion dollar out of state company the keys to the people’s land without demanding better for the people.
All for a measly million bucks.
Why is Ranger bragging about screwing the township?
According to locals, Ranger has been quite vocal about the fact that they do not need to work with the township. They have, according to sources, even threatened to sue the township. Quite benevolent. Under what grounds do they have to sue a township which is bending over and giving them everything and more? If they will treat us this “nicely” now… Just wait until the federal money train ends and worthless equipment fills our landscape and no company exists to remove it.
Talk about blight…
What is Gustin Township itself scared of?
Why has the Township and village installed security cameras inside of their offices, public spaces, fire department (and possibly other facilities)? According to our anonymous source, they did this without notifying the fire chief or the public.
Yet, Gustin Township has had an opportunity to serve transparency to the public who they are supposed to serve, but fails to do so. If they can pay to install “security cameras” certainly they can afford a much cheaper system to institute a public live stream of meetings so that all members of the tax base are able to see what is going on at meetings. YouTube is free and streaming cameras/laptops are cheap.
What might the local government be hiding?
They sure aren’t addressing and fighting for the needs of citizens who are almost certain to lose property value if those individuals also do not buy-in this Green New Scam. They certainly aren’t telling citizens how they can fight back against the State’s unconstitutional interference within local governance.
Take a quick peek at what some concerned citizens around the USA have to say about how Solar is impacting their areas, their concerns for the impacts in the areas, and how their voices seem to go unheard by their local and state governments: https://www.citizensforresponsiblesolar.org/impacted-citizens
It certainly seems that our local government is quite content to ignore the voices of the many, to appease the few. I mean, they sure don’t seem to care about how heavily this will assuredly impact our tourism industry.
They clearly do not seem to care about how this will impact local hunters and the “cottage industry” born from those who visit for hunting purposes, as this industrial blight becomes more and more widespread.
Why are there no limits being placed upon how much of our land can be covered with this grotesque industrial danger?
Why aren’t they seeking out and signing onto existing lawsuits via resolution in order to get control back into local hands?
Many questions. The more they rush this through, the less chance these questions and others will get answered. The more chances that mistakes will be made. Mistakes that may be generational or longer. I mean, they’re still dealing with industrial messes in Mancelona and Oscoda… All for the love of money.
Why haven’t they exercised their due diligence and contracted a third party to conduct our own studies and have our own impartial facts? Davey does this for many areas…
Will they fight against this if it happens? https://www.alconaconservatives.com/2022/12/05/michigan-house-joint-resolution-y-2022/
Why is Ranger hiding FACTS?
Ranger representatives were surprised to know that members of the public were aware of their unmentioned 7 foot fencing which is to surround each project. Our land is going to look like a bunch of prison camps… Why are they hiding this horrid fact?
Will Ranger address the conservation fallout of these projects which will affect the pathing of wildlife?
Will Ranger address the fact that displaced animals will descend upon neighboring farms who are actually trying to farm in even greater numbers than they are currently enduring?
Will Ranger address the possible complete disruption of hunting in lands surrounding these industrial developments? This will exacerbate all of these issues. It will also cause farmland to be utterly worthless unless all buy in. Is this by design? Likely yes.
Why is Ranger avoiding the question regarding dual usage? They do not want to answer whether or not farmers will still be able to utilize industrial land for agricultural use concurrently. Will they even be able to do so given the health hazards?
How will this effect our water? If health departments are beginning to fight back, I’m willing to bet that this is an issue.
Questions Ranger MUST address (and why aren’t ELECTED representatives holding them accountable to answer):
Regarding the prison fencing, where will it be located? On the property line or, where?
Will there be the “promised” shrubberies and who will ensure that these grow and thrive?
Will Ranger Power commit to ensuring that the shrub screening is “deer proof”? Will they commit to ensuring it fully obfuscates the industrial blight they are intended to hide?
We need to stop this until every single question is satisfactorily answered. Remediation and solutions to guarantee land can be fully restored and usable must be in place.
SHOW UP! December 2, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Township Hall located at 113 S. Second St in Lincoln MI 48742
More to come…
We are the news now!
God bless you all.
Jeff
Documents from the Township Website & Page Archive
Appendix-A.-Gustin-Township-Application-for-Special-Land-Use-Permit
Appendix-B.-Site-Plan-compressed
Appendix-C.-Participating-Parcel-List
Appendix-D.-Sound-Modeling-Study
Appendix-E.-Decommissioning-Plan
Appendix-F.-Glare-Study
Appendix-G.-Real-Estate-Adjacent-Property-Value-Impact-Report
Appendix-H.-Preliminary-Stormwater-Runoff-Memorandum
Appendix-I.-Environmental-Impact-Assessment
Narrative
Variance-Requests
Source: http://gustintwp.com/ranger-power-application/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20241008183102/http://gustintwp.com/ranger-power-application/
