If the US converted all our energy we use now to renewable green wind and solar energy, how big of a footprint would that look like?  

And, in what ways are these green energy solutions better? 

Learn more and watch this 60 second video here:  

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1337426837208729/


Reach out to contact State rep Aaron Bernstine 8th Legislative District with your views of industrial solar.  He does not serve all of Lawrence County, but he does serve some areas that could be be impacted by industrial solar being installed on prime farm land.  


https://www.repbernstine.com/contact

Way to go Adam County.   Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano introduces a bill to keep solar panels off pristine farmland.  Let’s go Lawrence County!  We can do this too.  


https://www.wgal.com/amp/article/pennsylvania-state-senator-doug-mastriano-bill-keep-solar-panels-off-farmland/44816982


Reach out to contact State rep Aaron Bernstine 8th Legislative District with your views of industrial solar.  He does not serve all of Lawrence County, but he does serve some areas that could be be impacted by industrial solar being installed on prime farm land.  


https://www.repbernstine.com/contact

Toxic smoke from a solar fire was so bad that orders were given to “shelter in place”.  Think East Palestine was bad?  This is worse as these solar fields will be IN LAWRENCE COUNTY and this toxic air can easily drift to your home or work for you and your family to breath.  


https://www.wwnytv.com/2023/07/27/residents-told-shelter-place-due-potentially-toxic-smoke-solar-farm-fire/?fbclid=IwAR2S0sLKyMfHf4iWpJ9-4BK0-eCxbBLaG6E3EgE0dabAjmH0XuEtp1ZEXe8_aem_ARKqBnG9fMfC7GGeamFUDODxx7rzTe67xCNtm00uygzs6sncOcH8KJt77t-u4MHhEm8&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#lksaxsj11incodoiunr 


DO YOU WANT TO LIVE WITH THE THREAT OF SHELTERING IN PLACE from toxic smoke?   This month contact…

Senator Michele Brooks
https://www.senatorbrooks.com/contact/ 

Spread the word to your neighbors because a source said that the solar company is contacting our reps and only tell them to benefits industrial solar in Lawrence County and not the hazards. 

Has anything changed? It still looks like landowners still have not renew their leases.  We expected the solar company: made excuses of where they have been, introduced new ideas to get them excited, followed up with more empty promises to get them to renew their leases.   BEWARE that these landowners potentially will be signing away their land rights and will have no access or say what goes on behind the fence of their land they leased for the next 40 YEARS.  

What will happen next:

Buy more advertising to gain more support for the solar project!  BEWARE that numbers used in this advertising are not from an independent study.  The numbers generated are from a company they hired to use data they provided.  Demand an independent job loss impact study over the next 40 years due to this solar project.

Buy more influence!  Watch to see if the solar company is going to throw more money around in yearly payments to potentially the:  school,  fire department, landowners, county, township, sponsorships and giveaways.  BEWARE that if this project is so great, why do they have to buy influence?  

Targeting you!   Be expecting more phone surveys with slanted questions towards only their agenda!  BEWARE that the questions do not give you the full picture and you can only give yes or no answers 

Targeting our representatives!  These solar salesmen will be using all this data, promises of money generated, bought influence, promises of jobs to convince our representatives to pave the road for them to come in.  BEWARE that if we don’t contact them and let them know where you stand that our reps may actually start to pave the road and make it easier for them to come in.  

This month, contact Dan Vogler with your opinion. 

https://lawrencecountypa.gov/departments/commissioners/contacts/dan-vogler?fbclid=IwAR1NSx04OiGXdVqBXvR1k8xFM6ZJy1TOTzasrOXgD1LVjBXDQqmKvGXFIJo 

Have you seen all the new solar advertisements popping up during the month of June?  Did you also notice that the solar company is still using their own paid reports which promises of millions of dollars to the area?  Insist that our county and state need to do their own independent studies on how industrial solar will affect our area.  


Voice your opinion with our Chairman Lawerence County Commissioner Dan Vogler that industrial solar does not belong on farmland
724-656-2163  or email
https://lawrencecountypa.gov/departments/commissioners/contacts/dan-vogler 


Our next post will be on the 15th.  


Enjoy celebrating your Independence Day of the 4th of July. 

Here are the results from Sanilac County in Michigan who hired a company do an impact study. Taking ONLY 1% of the county’s farmland out of production, would remove roughly $6.5 million from economic production and their counties economy. Source: https://mindencityherald.com/f/sanilac-county-master-plan How many millions of dollars could Lawrence County lose if they allow industrial solar on prime farmland?
Don’t forget to contact our rep Marla Brown with this information.
Check back July 1st for the next update.

The solar company repeatedly claims how much good they will be doing for the local community and how much money they will be bringing into the local community.  They even publish impact studies, but the companies hired to give the results are hired by the solar company.  

The local solar company hired this company which states “understands how to measure an organization’s impact on the economy and will help you make that story work for you”.  Does this lead you to believe that their impact studies will present the negative impact as well as the positive impact too?  Read the first sentence here: https://parkerphilips.com/capabilities/economic-impact/  

Tomorrow we will post the results from a county that did their own impact study on how much money the county could ”LOSE”  if only 1% of farmland is taken out of production.