Sorry, but sellouts should just take their money and shut up. Of course the land is ruined. Any dam fool could see that one coming.
If he “warned them this would happen” why did he lease the land to these idiots so they could intentionally destroy it? I don’t understand why he’s complaining when it’s his fault
Wow-
We are getting 3.9% of our electricity from solar (nationally), after DECADES of subsidies, that’s impressive. (sarc)
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
***If we subsidise it until we’re all poor, up the level to where we all starve, maybe we can get 8%!!!***
Once land is covered with solar panels and when those panels break, the chemicals that enter the soil make it unfit to grow food ever again.
HOW LONG IS THE LEASE???
HE should be telling this story to every single farm bureau & co-op in the USA.
The dirty screech is that when farm land is leased out for Solar they pretty much kill the soil so that nothing will grow under the panels and you ruin the land for years to come. There was a huge lawsuit on this I think in Georgia and the damages ran into about $200 Million.
Solar arrays should cover parking lots and commercial property roofs—like shopping malls.
Grazing land as a last resort.
Cropland: NEVER!
Why in the world would they spread fine sand on the soil?
Well, maybe they will find some kind of bugs that will thrive in the dust and shade of the panels, and we can eat them instead.
1200 acres? That’s barely a drop in the bucket for farmland production. What a non-issue.
Liberals can’t put these in their crime ridden neighborhoods so they destroy the ountryside.
if only the public would connect the dots between the war on farmers, the co-opting of some farmers to the “climate” scam, the amount of land required if solar/wind is to work, the costs, including the transmission lines, etc....the real protests could begin.
instead, we’re losing the farms while the culture wars keep being fanned.
By design. From the same hypocrites who crow about the importance of urban growth boundaries.
Native of Jasper County. Know exactly where this place is. Wonderful flat sandy loam soil from the Kankakee River bottom. Just a few miles from the Jasper-Pulaski State Game Preserve.
Farmer Duttlinger was a greedy F that fell for the BS from the solar developers. And the local county government, who could have passed legislation to prohibit such developments, didn’t because the Northern Indiana Public Service Company had announced that they were going to retire the nearby coal-fired Schaefer Generating Station with the attending loss of property taxes. So they permitted the solar installation to get the property tax revenue.
All involved should be strung up on the courthouse lawn.
Who cares about eating when you’ve a battery car to suck up all the juice
This isn’t like ethanol where there has to be an existing end product actually wasting food. Why can’t they do the magic done with most solar projects where billions of dollars disappear with little or no end results and food can still be grown on the land?
If we do not do solar cells, we may experienced hunger.
If we do solar cells, we WILL experience hunger.
Solar cells destroy everything they are on. And introduce major pollution.