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Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US::Local governments across the U.S. are blocking new clean energy plants. See the best locations for wind and solar power, and where it's being stopped.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Rural folks don't care about other people having rooftop solar panels. I am also not talking about offshore farms, which should be clear by my example about someone's house being impacted.

Large scale wind and solar do require some legal action in rural areas to make them feasible. The most common is needing to run the extremely large power lines across fields to the centralized distribution centers.

It needs to be done, and people will be impacted, but they are still people and shouldn't be ignored completely. In general, they should probably be conpensated more than they are for the inconvenience of having land forcibly purchased from them, or for the negative impacts on their area that are unavoidable for such large scale projects.