There's Nothing Wrong About A Moratorium On High-Impact Industrial and High-Intensity Digital Infrastructure Projects So They Can Be Sensibly Regulated

And there's nothing right about refusing to take the time and care to sensibly regulate those projects

In my last Substack article I announced that Facebook “temporarily suspended” my personal Facebook account on May 30. Facebook/Meta suspended my account shortly after I posted why a 12-month moratorium - on approving and permitting high-impact industrial and high-intensity digital infrastructure (HIDI) development projects in unincorporated areas of Pulaski County, Arkansas - makes good sense.

I’m glad to report good news. No, Facebook/Meta has not restored my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Facebook/Meta hasn't told me what I am alleged to have done that violates the “Terms of Use.” As my father would say, that would be “too much like right.”

The good news is that three members of the Pulaski County Quorum Court (Justices of the Peace Tina Ward, Julie Blackwood, and Rebekah Davis) are sponsoring an emergency ordinance I drafted that will impose a twelve (12) month moratorium on approving and permitting development projects for high-impact industrial and high-intensity digital infrastructure facilities so our County can sensibly and openly develop a fair, accountable, inclusive, transparent, and trustworthy system and procedures for regulating those important land uses.

I encourage you to read their proposed emergency ordinance for a 12-month moratorium. Think about the work required to sensibly prepare to regulate development projects as unique and varied as high-impact industrial and high-intensity digital infrastructure uses. Then ask yourself why sensible people with fair minds would not want this to be done.

What's wrong with pausing so we can create and implement a fair-minded regulatory system?

And what's right about a system built on the whims of developers and other financially-interested boosters of these projects behind the backs of the rest of us?

Here's a link for the emergency ordinance for a 12 month moratorium that Byron Tate of the Arkansas Times posted in an article he wrote about the issue on yesterday.

https://arktimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26-I-45-Moratorium2.pdf

I hope Pulaski County lawmakers will enact this ordinance later this month so that high-impact industrial and high-intensity infrastructure projects will be regulated by a fair, accountable, inclusive, and transparent process we can trust.

There's nothing wrong about wanting that for our County, our Community, and our Future.