The NIMBYs are coming for Ford's new battery plant
But in Michigan's scramble to score on Virginia's turnover, some feel their voices have been drowned out. Does Marshall want a new manufacturing facility? If some are to be believed,. There have been meetings in living rooms and even a protest with signs outside Marshall City Hall. Will it matter? Seems unlikely. Ford has already lost one site for its new battery facility and is likely keen to keep a firm grip on this one.
So there's irony in the resistance. As a bleeding-heart type, I agree with the protesters' criticisms of the site choice. They say that"brownfields" should be repurposed before greenspace is converted to industrial use. Yep, I'm on board. They say that areas of denser population would offer better sources of factory labor; I'm inclined to believe that too. So far, everybody's making sense.
These new, high-volume methods still required a large quantity of manual labor, which tilted the balance in favor of America's growing population centers. And so Americans left the farms for the cities in search of work and, with the advent of the streetcar, could move to the outer perimeters of these economic powerhouses, putting dirty industry miles away from their civilized living spaces.
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