Starke County Property Rights at Risk Unless County Commissioners Stand Up for Farmers Choosing Solar
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Anti-Solar Activists are Coming for Your Property Rights
Anti-solar activists in Starke County are fighting to take away private property rights from local farmers who want to lease their private land for solar development.
After suffering a setback when the County Commissioners rejected their attempt to pass a solar moratorium they have taken to organize in secret - and possibly target landowners who are doing nothing wrong - just exercising their private property rights!
Preventing farmers from using their own land for solar deprives them of a stable source of income. Leasing for solar is a voluntary choice that should be available to farmers who want to diversify their income. And everyone is hurt if a solar moratorium or anti-renewable regulations are enacted in a county, costing millions of dollars in new, local private sector investment.
Let’s tell our elected representatives to support our farmers’ property rights!
Stand up for property rights and solar energy economic investment by signing our petition!
Every renewable energy project that doesn’t get off the ground is:
Lost income for farmers
Lost revenue from local small businesses
Lost jobs for construction workers
Lost revenue for counties who could use the money to improve local schools, provide broadband internet, support first responders and more
How Renewables Make Indiana’s Economy Stronger
Homegrown sources of energy we make right here in Indiana help us become more energy independent and less reliant on foreign sources of fuel.
Energy Independence
Renewables provide a new and stable source of revenue for farmers, giving them the option to use their land for wind or solar if they choose. Payments to private landowners from renewables totaled $26.2 million in 2022.
Revenue for farmers
Renewables strengthen Hoosier communities through private sector economic development payments and revenue that helps fund schools, first responders, community centers and highspeed internet. To date renewable energy companies have invested $8 billion in local projects and economies. Clean power projects paid $26.7 million in property, state and local taxes in 2022 alone.
Funds for community services
Renewables deliver job growth. Clean Jobs Midwest reports that clean energy companies employed more than 86,000 Hoosiers at the end of 2021 – a seven percent boost over the prior year. Job growth in clean energy is twice the speed of the overall economy. There are now over 11,000 Hoosiers in the renewable space alone.