{"id":228370,"date":"2022-11-10T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228370"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:12:53","slug":"battle-lines-american-farmers-winning-war-against-lying-greedy-wind-solar-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228370","title":{"rendered":"Battle Lines: American Farmers Winning War Against Lying, Greedy Wind & Solar Outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember all those glowing stories about wind and solar power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines\u00a0lined up all over their properties<\/a>? How can\u2019t locals wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent,\u00a0high paying jobs on offer<\/a>? How developers are viewed with the kind of reverence\u00a0reserved for Royalty<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve forgotten them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of being lied to, bullied, berated and treated like fools (at best) and \u201croad-kill\u201d (at worst), for most, the \u2018gloss\u2019 comprising wind and solar industry PR efforts to \u2018win hearts and minds\u2019 has well and truly worn off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, the communities aren\u2019t so gullible; they aren\u2019t so welcoming, and they aren\u2019t willing to take it lying down. Despite having the skills of the best spin doctors in the business at its disposal, it\u2019s \u201coutrage\u201d that\u2019s become the word synonymous with the wind and solar industries, wherever they go. In short, rural communities have had enough \u2013 and they\u2019re fighting back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Bryce provides an update on how America\u2019s farmers are winning the war against the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rural Backlash Against Renewables Surges, With 67 Rejections of Solar in U.S. Over Past 11 Months<\/strong>
Real Clear Energy
Robert Bryce
14 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soaring number of rejections \u2013 all of which are documented in the Renewable Rejection Database<\/a> \u2013 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<\/a> in their county. In all, since 2017, 94 communities across the U.S. have rejected or restricted Big Solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I have noted in many previous articles, these hundreds of rejections are routinely ignored by big media outlets. Further, they don\u2019t square with the schemes being promoted by academics from Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities who routinely claim that the U.S. can build thousands of megawatts of new solar and wind capacity in rural America and do so in just a few years. But the facts cannot be denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the lowdown on what\u2019s happening in Ohio. On August 23, the Ohio Capitol Journal reported that \u201cAt least 10 Ohio counties have passed resolutions blocking the development of new utility-scale wind and solar projects within all or part of their jurisdictions in the last year. At least two more counties are actively considering such a prohibition.\u201d The same media outlet listed the counties and townships that have rejected renewables. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n