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Re: North Carolina citizenry defeat pernicious Big Solar plan to suck up the Sun

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> North Carolina citizenry defeat pernicious Big Solar plan to suck up the Sun
>> http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/north-carolina-citizenry-defeat-pernicious-big-solar-plan-to-suck-up-the-sun/
> 
> 
>> The citizens of Woodland, N.C. have spoken loud and clear: They don't
>> want none of them highfalutin solar panels in their good town. They
>> scare off the kids. "All the young people are going to move out,"
>> warned Bobby Mann, a local resident concerned about the future of his
>> burg. Worse, Mann said, the solar panels would suck up all the energy
>> from the Sun.
>>
>> Another resident?a retired science teacher, no less?expressed concern
>> that a proposed solar farm would block photosynthesis, and prevent
>> nearby plants from growing. Jane Mann then went on to add that there
>> seemed to have been a lot of cancer deaths in the area, and that no
>> one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer. ?I want
>> information," Mann said. "Enough is enough."
>>
>> These comments were reported not in The Onion, but rather by the
>> Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald. They came during a Woodland Town Council
>> meeting in which Strata Solar Company sought to rezone an area
>> northeast of the town, off of US Highway 258, to build a solar farm.
>> The council not only rejected the proposal, it went a step further,
>> voting for a complete moratorium on solar farms.
> 
>   (sigh)
 
Good for them; another waste of taxpayer money prevented.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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