Sixty Seven Solar Energy Development Projects Have Been Rejected Over the Past 11 Months

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Sixty Seven Solar Energy Development Projects Have Been Rejected Over the Past 11 Months
 
Heartland Author
November 8, 2022
 
By Robert Bryce

The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period.

The soaring number of rejections – all of which are documented in the Renewable Rejection Database – brings the total number of solar rejections in the U.S. this year to 67. That total includes the October 12 unanimous vote by the Linn County, Iowa, Board of Supervisors to implement a moratorium on solar projects in their county. In all, since 2017, 94 communities across the U.S. have rejected or restricted Big Solar.

Wind projects are also facing fierce resistance, particularly in Ohio, a swing state that is critical to presidential candidates. Thus far in 2022, 46 local governments, 40 of which are in Ohio, have rejected or restricted wind projects. Furthermore, since 2015, 370 communities from Maine to Hawaii have rejected or restricted wind projects.

https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/11/sixty-seven-solar-energy-development-projects-have-been-rejected-over-the-past-11-months/

[Idiot]

Sixty Seven Solar Energy Development Projects Have Been Rejected Over the Past 11 Months
 
Heartland Author
November 8, 2022
 
By Robert Bryce

The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period.

The soaring number of rejections – all of which are documented in the Renewable Rejection Database – brings the total number of solar rejections in the U.S. this year to 67. That total includes the October 12 unanimous vote by the Linn County, Iowa, Board of Supervisors to implement a moratorium on solar projects in their county. In all, since 2017, 94 communities across the U.S. have rejected or restricted Big Solar.

Wind projects are also facing fierce resistance, particularly in Ohio, a swing state that is critical to presidential candidates. Thus far in 2022, 46 local governments, 40 of which are in Ohio, have rejected or restricted wind projects. Furthermore, since 2015, 370 communities from Maine to Hawaii have rejected or restricted wind projects.

https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/11/sixty-seven-solar-energy-development-projects-have-been-rejected-over-the-past-11-months/

I wish they'd start rejecting these projects around here.  I kind of liked the windmills in the beginning when there were just a few of them.  Now they are EVERYWHERE and are hideous.  We even have huge solar farms that cover hundreds if not thousands of acres.  Good farmland that is now totally useless.  Now of course if I owned the land I'd be rather happy with a few windmills....lol.  Just to give you an idea how much money they generate for the land owner...  one friend of mine has 70+ wind turbines on their place and it generates close to $3,000,000 a year in income.  They leased the land to the operator of the wind farm for 30 years.  I guess the lease is renegotiated after 30 years, or they are removed and I'm sure the infrastructure and bases will be left.