Under pressure from local residents, the city council of Woodland, North Carolina has voted to reject a solar power farm.
Various residents complained about declining property values while others claimed the solar farms are killing plants because they "suck up all the energy from the sun."
Jane Mann said she is a local native and is concerned about the plants that make the community beautiful.
She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where the plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.
She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer.
I feel sorry for the children this alleged science teacher allegedly educated.
Bobby Mann said he watched communities dry up when I-95 came along and warned that would happen to Woodland because of the solar farms.
“You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.”
He said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.
I don't think solar farms are the reason young people are leaving town.
Holy shit.