BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 25, 2022
Solar panels are going up everywhere destroying valuable farm lands, forests, wildlife habitat and Maine’s natural beauty. Are Maine farmers expected to trade in their farm equipment and run on solar? Are Maine households expected to replace furnaces with solar energy? It’s an unrealistic and unworkable plight. The entire country could run on solar and it would not make much of a difference in global warming. Throughout Maine today, huge solar fields are devastating the Maine landscape that the billboard law once protected, and there’s no end in sight. ~ Tonia Gilkey, Bangor