Montgomery County residents speak out against possible solar farm
Some residents of the Ramer community in Montgomery County are speaking out against a potential solar farm that could be built in their community.
At a meeting Tuesday night, they said they don’t want a proposed 2,300 acre solar farm to be built near their homes on Mt. Zion Road. They say they’re worried about the health, livelihoods and property values.
Montgomery County Commission Chairman Doug Singleton was at the meeting. He explained that solar farm companies do not have to go through the zoning process in unincorporated areas like Ramer. He says the companies can do what they want on their newly-purchased property.
“If this does happen, then that runoff is from whatever property whatever they do, it’s going to run off into our property and it’s going to destroy my bees,” Erin Williams, who owns property on Mt. Zion Road, told Action 8 News. “I’m going to have to uproot my bees, I’m gonna have to uproot my ducks, I’m gonna have to uproot my chickens.”
“The only people that can really stop it now would be if there was some type of zoning, which there’s not, but also if the land owner decided to change his mind or something,” Singleton said. “Again, these people say they’re not going to give up. They’re going to keep fighting because it’s so important that they be able to preserve their lifestyle and their beautiful land down here and they want to keep that.”
Singleton says he hopes that people from the solar farm company will come to the next community meeting to answer questions from the residents.
