Washington Parish will be home to atleast TWO solar farms if we don’t stop it!
These solar farm installations continue even though there are countless lawsuits against numerous solar companies.
First-hand accounts of people that live near solar farms have stated that local ponds, wells, ditches, rivers and wetlands dried after the thousands of solar panels were installed.
Vast amounts of wildlife have died in the areas, while the birds, bees, and other pollinators no longer exist.
Woodlands will be bulldozed and terrain will be changed forever.
Dust from the barren fields will fill the air and it will cause breathing problems for people, livestock, horses, pets, and wildlife.
There are personal stories of countless drain tiles being broken during construction, broken solar panels, piles of garbage and debris that is later hidden from the road in heaps and buried underground.
With the runoff and ambient heat, the wetlands will never be the same, along with native plants, grasses and the water table.
The safety, quality, and quantity of our natural resources, including the soil and drinking water, will be affected by large amounts of toxic elements leaching from any cracked, broken, or damaged solar panels.
Studies have shown that home values will decrease up to 40% and the health and quality of life will suffer greatly.
Solar panels catch rainwater and the water will run off in a straight line, row after row, flooding the neighboring land.
Families living near these enormous solar facilities are inundated with illnesses at an alarming rate.
The constant, loud humming noise coming from the inverters has caused lawsuits against solar companies.
Reports show that fire is a major hidden danger of solar farms and have taken days to extinguish.
Solar panels have started fires and battery energy storage has exploded and caught fire on solar farms.
There are harmful cancer causing chemicals contained in the smoke.
Firefighters need specialized training for the toxic solar fires and fire trucks have been unable to access the fenced in area of solar farms.
Local farmhands will lose their jobs, local fuel distributors will lose sales of diesel fuel for farm tractors, local parts stores and maintenance workers will lose farm business, local feed stores will no longer be needed, and local farm-supply stores will lose seed, grain, and fertilizer sales.
Prices will eventually rise as less produce is available for the economy.
Solar companies are known to lie throughout the proposal and process and claim to not know answers during public meetings.
Multi-year signed land leases do not include details of maintenance, cleanup of the deadly toxins, leaching harmful elements, or the event of the solar company filing bankruptcy.
Solar companies have no interest in purchasing any of the land because they do not want to be responsible for the change in land use taxes or final cleanup costs.
In addition, by renting the land, solar companies do not have to pay taxes.
Sixty-one U.S. solar companies have closed or filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and 2024 alone.
Once the solar company closes, the farmers who leased their land will no longer be paid and will be responsible for clearing the acres of toxic panels and discarded storage batteries.
After the solar companies have spent millions and millions of federal tax money to create massive solar farms, they will leave the area with tens of thousands of acres of stripped farmland and woodlands filled with solar panels, dead wildlife, toxic elements, and miles of buried conduit, wires and concrete for decades to come.