Public commenters at a Tadpole County meeting on an unspecified date urged county officials to take proactive steps on proposed carbon sequestration projects and voiced broad opposition to utility-scale renewable energy in agricultural preservation zones. Commenters raised concerns about water contamination, tax abatements and corporate practices and asked the county to consider local restrictions or testing.

Speakers described recent state legislative activity and private-sector proposals that they said could affect local water and farmland. One commenter said an Illinois Senate measure passed unanimously and that there were “20 days to sign it,” and urged Tadpole County to act proactively. Another warned of companies seeking new revenue streams tied to sequestration and expressed worry about local impacts if municipal waste were used for sequestration projects.

The most strongly worded remarks came from David King, who said projects under consideration fall in the county’s Agricultural Preservation District and are not agricultural uses. “Opposing utility scale, renewable energy development, be it solar, wind, or whatever,” King said, framing his remarks as resistance to large-scale renewable projects in preserved farmland.

Speakers asked the county to test for potential contaminants, to scrutinize tax-abatement arrangements and to consider local steps to limit or regulate sequestration and large energy installations. No formal action or vote on these requests appears in the meeting record; the comments were made during the public-comment portion of the agenda.

The public comments combined general warnings about corporate activity with specific local concerns about land use and water safety, but the transcript does not record any staff response, referral to staff, or a formal request from the board for follow-up during the same meeting.

For now, the matters raised in public comment remain requests to the board rather than binding county policy or orders to staff.