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NextEra Energy Resourcesâ Skeleton Creek Wind began generating electricity on Dec. 16. (NextEra Energy Resources Photo)
NextEra Energy Resourcesâ Skeleton Creek Wind began generating electricity on Dec. 16. (NextEra Energy Resources Photo)
By Enid News & Eagle
The first phase of NextEra Energy Resourcesâ massive Skeleton Creek Project has become operational as the wind energy part of the project began generating electricity on Dec. 16.
The project, which will be located in Garfield, Alfalfa and Major counties, will combine wind, solar and battery storage when it is complete.
Skeleton Creek Wind will generate 250 megawatts of wind energy for Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, which will purchase all the projectâs electricity â about enough to power 150,000 homes.
More journalists of color become newsroom founders
“They’ll be emboldened to start from scratch and build the kind of media ecosystem they want to see.”
In 2021, we’ll see more journalists of color go from being newsroom employees to newsroom founders. That might seem like an unrealistic future to some but if you look closely at what’s happened across the industry this year, it doesn’t feel too far off.
This summer, as newsrooms deployed reporters to cover protests for racial justice, many were forced to reckon with the inequities within their own houses. Scores of Black and brown journalists took to Twitter to call out former employers, editors, and executives for mistreatment, intimidation, and the outright racism that’s persisted for years in some of America’s most important newsrooms. The nation was engaging in what seemed like a nonstop dialogue about inequality, and the people documenting that discourse had the attention of massive audiences on social media