{"id":84,"date":"2015-12-15T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-12-15T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:37:50","slug":"north-carolina-town-renounces-solar-for-some-strange-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/north-carolina-town-renounces-solar-for-some-strange-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina town renounces solar &#8212; for some strange reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Woodland, NC recently achieved fame in the world of solar power and renewable energy &#8212; but for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A recent article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2015\/12\/08\/woodland-rejects-solar-farm\/\" title=\"The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald<\/strong><\/a> brought fame to the small town of Woodland &#8212; population less than 1000 &#8212; after the town rejected a rezoning proposal that would have allowed the construction and use of a solar farm.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the rejection itself that is noteworthy here, but rather the reasons for the rejection.<\/p>\n<p><em>The following list is referenced directly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2015\/12\/08\/woodland-rejects-solar-farm\/\" title=\"Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald article\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald article<\/strong><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One resident expressed concern that vegetation around the solar panels wouldn&#8217;t receive enough sunlight and would die.<\/li>\n<li>The same resident also noted that no one can confirm that solar panels don&#8217;t cause cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Another resident said that &#8220;the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Representatives from the solar panel company explained that panels don&#8217;t draw additional sunlight and that there would be no toxic materials on site, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald, part of the reason for the proposal of the solar farm in Woodland is due to the town&#8217;s proximity to an electrical substation. Any power generated by the panels at a solar farm could thus be added to the electrical grid.<\/p>\n<h2>And yes, this is true<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, a NC town rejected solar panels, but it&#39;s more complicated than &quot;they suck up the sun&quot;: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xG1bqV5gWQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/xG1bqV5gWQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KAp0RxenqV\">pic.twitter.com\/KAp0RxenqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; snopes.com (@snopes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snopes\/status\/676451353359683584\">December 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/north-carolina-town-rejects-solar-because-wait-what\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Solar Energy Local<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Woodland, NC rejected a proposal that would have put a solar farm in their community, and had some strange reasoning for doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,5,9],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}