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Mississippi regulators to solar boosters: Sit down and be quiet (floodlightnews.org)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's just so weird to get so upset about solar that you have tshirts and signs made to protest. Even if I don't agree with it, I can at least understand the angle most protestors are coming from. But this? What's to get so mad about solar?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but I've seen wooded areas clear cut for large scale solar farms before. That's completely missing the point of green energy IMO and I can see why some would oppose it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Here in Massachusetts they’ve installed panels in all sorts of otherwise unusable space, including:

  • capped garbage dumps & transfer stations
  • Along the sides of highways
  • inside highway clover leafs