Big Wind & Big Solar Are Trying To Sue Rural America Into Submission
In pursuit of massive federal subsidies, alt-energy companies, including a subsidiary of oil giant Shell, are suing rural communities to force them to accept solar and wind projects they don’t want.
Jan 16, 2025
Jason West, an auto mechanic from Decatur Township, Michigan, is fighting a solar project proposed by a subsidiary of oil giant shell. “It’s wrong for the township. It creates no jobs. It gives no money to the township.” Photo: Jason West.
In 2017, I talked to K. Darlene Park, a resident of Frostburg, Maryland, who was leading a fight against a proposed wind project in her neighborhood. She told me, “We feel this renewable energy push is an attack on rural America.”
The fight in Maryland is one of hundreds happening across the country. The Renewable Rejection Database now includes 764 rejections or restrictions of wind and solar projects since 2015. Among the latest examples came last November. On Election Day in Harpswell, Maine, a heavily Democratic electorate overwhelmingly rejected a proposed five-acre solar project. The vote against the project was 2,344 to 1,393, or 63% to 37%. That’s a decisive vote, particularly in a town that voted heavily for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
As reported on November 6 by J.W. Oliver, the editor of the Harpswell Anchor, “Harpswell voters cast 2,351 ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris to 1,458 for former President Donald Trump.” Thus, in Harpswell, citizens voted against solar by roughly the same margin that they voted for Kamala Harris.
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/big-wind-and-big-solar-are-trying
