If you’re in the US it would be worth talking to your town and town’s planning board then. It would be up to the town planning board whether or not that was an acceptable use of that specific land in that specific area. A developer would only buy that land if they knew they would get a build permit. You can attend a meeting and there’s usually a time slot for a public input session on the agenda and you can bring that up. If you’re not in the US I’m not sure how it works but it might be similar.
These are all farms outside of city limits of course, that way the energy companies can avoid the most local layer of government and just interact with the county/state level.
I’m honestly not sure how I feel about these projects. On one hand I don’t want to see fewer small farms, on the other I’m happy to see more solar and wind energy come online, plus if they’re looking at setting up solar/wind at the scale of acres upon acres of solar, their only options are either to take up existing farm land (which lets be real, only about 5% of is producing food that we eat) or to mow down all of the trees and natural growth on undeveloped land that folks keep for hunting, thereby taking away space from wildlife
If you’re in the US it would be worth talking to your town and town’s planning board then. It would be up to the town planning board whether or not that was an acceptable use of that specific land in that specific area. A developer would only buy that land if they knew they would get a build permit. You can attend a meeting and there’s usually a time slot for a public input session on the agenda and you can bring that up. If you’re not in the US I’m not sure how it works but it might be similar.
These are all farms outside of city limits of course, that way the energy companies can avoid the most local layer of government and just interact with the county/state level.
I’m honestly not sure how I feel about these projects. On one hand I don’t want to see fewer small farms, on the other I’m happy to see more solar and wind energy come online, plus if they’re looking at setting up solar/wind at the scale of acres upon acres of solar, their only options are either to take up existing farm land (which lets be real, only about 5% of is producing food that we eat) or to mow down all of the trees and natural growth on undeveloped land that folks keep for hunting, thereby taking away space from wildlife