It's starting to become a common story... bucolic farm community is blindsided to find out that one of their own has sold the rights to their property to a wind or solar developer. In some stories, it's several someones. By the time the community at large finds out about it, the damage has been done.
These big out-of-state (and sometimes foreign) development companies swoop in to the community and begin to systematically destroy it with huge wind and solar installations and their necessary high voltage electric transmission lines.
This story is currently playing out in Audrain and Callaway Counties in eastern Missouri. Known as one of the most productive farming areas in the state, it is proposed to be covered by 12,000 acres of new solar "farms" and a 30,000 acre wind "farm." It's also home to the new Burns Substation, where all this new generation will connect with the Grain Belt Express Tiger Connector so it can all be shipped for use hundreds of miles away in eastern states.
Grain Belt Express is perhaps the catalyst for this unprecedented destruction, making new electric superhighway opportunities for greedy energy speculators racing to see who can score the most taxpayer subsidies first.
Opposition to this invasion has been forming, and now they have a brand new website that pulls together a whole bunch of useful information for residents.
You can even get a bright yard sign to spread the word, or perhaps a t-shirt that says "No Farms - No Food - No Future." I've already ordered my own.
Check out the website and be sure to sign up for the email newsletter so you can be the first to know what's happening and what you can do to make it stop.
These big out-of-state (and sometimes foreign) development companies swoop in to the community and begin to systematically destroy it with huge wind and solar installations and their necessary high voltage electric transmission lines.
This story is currently playing out in Audrain and Callaway Counties in eastern Missouri. Known as one of the most productive farming areas in the state, it is proposed to be covered by 12,000 acres of new solar "farms" and a 30,000 acre wind "farm." It's also home to the new Burns Substation, where all this new generation will connect with the Grain Belt Express Tiger Connector so it can all be shipped for use hundreds of miles away in eastern states.
Grain Belt Express is perhaps the catalyst for this unprecedented destruction, making new electric superhighway opportunities for greedy energy speculators racing to see who can score the most taxpayer subsidies first.
Opposition to this invasion has been forming, and now they have a brand new website that pulls together a whole bunch of useful information for residents.
You can even get a bright yard sign to spread the word, or perhaps a t-shirt that says "No Farms - No Food - No Future." I've already ordered my own.
Check out the website and be sure to sign up for the email newsletter so you can be the first to know what's happening and what you can do to make it stop.
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