CLARKE COUNTY, Miss. - Over a year ago in Barnett, a small community south of Pachuta, awoke to discover a solar farm going up their backyard. They found out about it when Cane Creek Solar started using heavy-duty machinery to begin the project.
The people of Barnett say they weren’t told about the solar farm.
A year later, the company and the people who live there share how life is now.
The community is hardly recognizable. What was once an ocean of tall green pine trees is now a sea of utility-scale solar panels.
For Cane Creek Solar, they say the balance of construction is in the rearview mirror, "but things are certainly trending positively and exciting milestones ahead,” said Sean Anderson, VP of Pine Gate Renewables.
But when speaking with the residents, Sheila Strickland Street said: “It used to be a peaceful place you could drive through. You know, we had our beautiful trees. Of course, they’re gone. But it’s not the home that we grew up in. It’s not the community that we grew up in.” (WTOK 12/18/23) Small Mississippi community debates price of progress (wlbt.com)
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