Neighboring landowner awarded $135 million for solar farm pollution | Eastern NC Now

A federal jury in south Georgia has awarded a neighboring landowner $135.5 million from a set of solar farm companies for severe pollution of their land from runoff from the  large solar farm next to them.

https://www.cfact.org/2023/06/06/solar-farm-runoff-pollutes-property-couple-awarded-135-million/

Calling solar "clean energy" is a bad joke.  Solar panels, mostly made in China, contain numerous hazardous substances.

This raises the question of when Beaufort County will enact a solar energy ordinance with any teeth?  Shouldn't our landowners be protected from this hazard?

And it is not just solar.  Wind energy has also been a source of pollution.  Four wind energy companies operating in the Chatham-Kent rural municipality of Ontario have been criminally indicted for multiple felonies of polluting the groundwater.  Public officials warn farmers there not only not to drink or cook with their well water, but that it is so toxis not to even bathe in it.  Ireland has had a 5 million euro environmental fine imposed when a wind farm developer's runoff led to a massive fish kill.

Beaufort County has no wind energy ordinance at all.

And we also have to remember that the RINO legislative leadership last year rammed through NC's Green New Deal, HB951 which will put a lot more of this crap across our state.  Thanks, a lot, Senator Jim Perry, a big proponent of HB951.