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Tipperary group campaigning against major solar farm to feature on RTÉ’s Primetime (www.independent.ie)
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[–] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“We need to ask ourselves: would the environmental impact of these large industrial-sized solar complexes outweigh the benefits they claim to provide?

What environmental impacts? The concrete used to build them? The interference in the natural habitats of animals in the area?

“There’s definitely a place for solar panels—on rooftops, not on prime agricultural land that our community relies on.

Oh, those environmental impacts. If the land is so good for farming, why has the farmer seemingly sold it to be turned into a solar farm?

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah. When I read those quotes in reverse order it sounds closer to what their sequence of thought probably was.

  1. money
  2. farming to make money
  3. Solar something something