US town rejects solar farm, page-16

My mistake.
Correct.  The projects are 4 hours apart in the same state of North Carolina.  I confused the two.


Looking at the photos of nearby solar farms 4 hours away though, But looking at the photos is there little wonder why the town of "Woodland" doesn't want a similar farm?

The project in the photos has proceeded with two stages and with the third addition of 100 ACRES of panels in woodlands (as in trees jantimot, not a town name), if not in place already.  

The environmental arguments against solar farms are still valid.  Clearing land for panels is becoming an environmental disaster internationally.  In forests, up hillsides with devastating runoff, through valuable habitats, where ever.  As long as companies make money in the "new energy economy", that is all that seems to matter at the moment.  All in the name of "saving the planet"?

What the ex-teacher said about blocking sunlight is still correct and valid.
For acres, and acres and acres of cleared land.  Relatively little grows in the shade zones.  Especially when many managing solar companies end up spraying the entire farms to prevent developing undergrowth from fouling the cells (not that much grows under or near them anyway).

What's different between solar farms and broadacre farming in terms of ecology?  Not much.  They are both abominations required for economies.  Just that agri has already done the clearing and even monoculture crops still photosynthesis.