I'M Guilty.
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BY JOHN MURAWSKI [email protected]
Usually what happens in Woodland stays in Woodland, a town 115 miles east of Raleigh with one Dollar General store and one restaurant.
But news of the Northampton County hamlet’s moratorium on solar farms blew up on social media over the weekend after a local paper quoted a resident complaining to the Town Council that solar farms would take away sunshine from nearby vegetation. Another resident warned that solar panels would suck up energy from the sun.
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NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
Woodland becomes butt of social media after anti-solar remarks
Story goes viral after local residents make outlandish anti-solar claims Woodland officials then barraged by hate mail Town officials say the Internet missed an important piece of the story
BY JOHN MURAWSKI [email protected]
Usually what happens in Woodland stays in Woodland, a town 115 miles east of Raleigh with one Dollar General store and one restaurant.
But news of the Northampton County hamlet’s moratorium on solar farms blew up on social media over the weekend after a local paper quoted a resident complaining to the Town Council that solar farms would take away sunshine from nearby vegetation. Another resident warned that solar panels would suck up energy from the sun.