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EcoRadio KC is a magazine show, including live segments, prerecorded stories, and interviews. The weekly explores our interdependence with the rest of the world, showing the connections between the ways we choose to live and the health of the whole community of life.
Host Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will speak with their guest, Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. We will learn more about the future of solar energy to provide electricity in Kansas. The Kansas Legislature has 3 solar-related bills that are being followed by the Sierra Club. The Legislature’s committee on energy and utilities has met in preparation for start of the 2024 session in January. In addition to industry and regulatory witnesses, the committee considered eminent domain in context of transmission.
The Kansas Sierra Club is in support of large-scale transmission infrastructure and responsibly sited renewable power plants but opposed to projects in which the environment is unnecessarily destroyed or developers take advantage of communities. The Sierra Club’s view is that transmission can be done in a way that benefits all customers, public health, the environment and the Kansas economy. It believes eminent domain should be a tool of last resort and that Kansas has to upgrade electricity transmission to make better use of low-cost energy sources but that decisions about transmission investments in Kansas require open public dialogue and community planning. Environmental justice must be considered and impacts on local diverse communities must be understood and mitigated to ensure fair treatment.
We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe for human habitation for millennia to come.
We at EcoRadio KC are glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future!
This will be a great radio hour!
