Commissioners approve economic development agreement for solar farm

When our grandchildren look back on this in 30 years, they’ll wonder why we let a few people benefit at the expense of the rest of the county.

Really? May be a benefit for rest of county. Could be failure for the few.

This is energy that is renewable and clean. All should be ok with that. The SSSLLC definitely should not complain. It is good for climate change and takes land away from evil food and feed growers.

The rightist's can't complain. It supports property rights. We want control of what we own. Those who say they don't are not being honest. Even the most leftist person doesn't want to be told what to do with what they own.

I am excited to see where this may or may not lead.

Property owners can do what they like with their property. The taxpayers should not subsidize it.

When our grandchildren look back on this in thirty years they'll wonder what took us so long.

all about $$$$$

This land was most likely already being subsidized by taxpayers as a result of the socialist program commonly referred to as the farm bill.

What is the obligation of the county in exchange for the $5.7 million? I may be mistaken, but I don't recall this type of agreement in the past. Does the county have an obligation to the company to provide certain goods and services? Or, is this just a new way to buy your way through the approval process?

Are Putnam County and the City of Greencastle competing for the biggest financial boondoggle -Solar farm vs. YMCA center?

While I don't personally agree with tax dollars (any tax dollars) supporting Solar I guess this project might somehow benefit Indiana. I do have a concern with the panels that fail. There isn't much that is salvageable and therefore most of the failed panel is shredded and sent directly to the landfill. So many "Green " projects are not so green if you look at the entire process from mining, processing, manufacturing and the disposal.

I am glad to see the SSSLLC supports nutrition for the hungry

Beg:

Expiain "SSSLLC".

Let's see where all this money coming from.

The Feds are anteing up the big subsidies in the name of saving the planet from climate change.

Look here:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/solar-subsidies-amount-to-50000-per-acre/

Of course, we all know by now, we don't have revenues to cover that so they "borrow" or more accurately print dollars, increasing inflation that devalues current and future dollars, if we stay on that course of spending.

We used to used to rely on our own natural resources to fuel generators like coal and natural gas, which we have plentiful amounts for electric grid needs. Now, those are deemed off limits.

Like it so far?

So, the subsidies are allocated to the various (largely newly created) companies that begin the process of developing solar farms in poorer rural areas that will jump at the chance for Federal subsidies. (The Washington eletes don't want solar farms in those lobbyists backyards don't ya know)

At each point of the process a little bit of those dollars have to be paid off to get the permission to proceed to the next step. Every large and small bureaucrat gets a piece of the action. Ya see?

Did we get the best deal we could? Doubt it.

The biggest piece still remains with the big lobbyists though. They never lose.

You know em, Rich Men North of Richmond.

That sounds like the same type of attitude that people had when they argued against the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution happened despite those type of views.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. But by all means, let’s just repeat the mistake.

that is an interesting statement. I assume you don't utilize any aspect of it? Still doing everything as in 1850? Don't drive a car?

Solar farms, wind farms are simply another waste of tax money that will never deliver electricity when the base load of the grid needs it.

That means when the sun goes down or the wind isn't blowing in the dead of winter or in the heat of summer, if the reliance is on these sources of electricity is predominate, they cannot deliver.

We can expect rolling blackouts and brownouts will happen when the reliance on these sources of power fails. California and Texas and soon Florida are examples of states that are not being well served by these expensive low producing schemes.

But, that won't stop the well-placed politicians and bureucrats from promoting them. High stakes virtue signaling is what gets them re-elected all on our tax dollars.

You can bet they won't be affected when the grid gets throttled down and the heat goes out or the A/C gets turned off by your smart meter.

Just keep listening to the same old b/s.

direstaits-You are smack on! In only a few years, everyone seems to have forgotten the experience, or suffering, of Texas when the ice storms collided with Green energy. It wasn't pretty. And, as you wrote, the Texas disaster was only one of many emergencies/disasters.

High-stakes virtue signaling? How true! Soon, the word responsibility will be removed from the dictionary.

@beg It’s a quote from an infamous manifesto. It doesn’t mean that I/we are opposed to industrialization and modernization; what it means is that we’re opposed to the manner in which it has been done. People jump on a giant airplane anytime they want and go anywhere they want, sometimes just one single person is transported at a time this way, with no consideration of the impact that has. We use many billions of single use plastic products per year. For decades we spewed lead vapors from our vehicles (in some cases that’s still legal), poisoning entire generations of children. Lobbyists and bad actors divide the people on every issue of consequence, all the while stuffing their pockets with the spoils of a silent war.

Crony capitalism, the combination of an intentionally rigged economic system and a bought-and-paid-for (worldwide) government, is destroying us all, and we happily oblige as long as the cell towers keep working.