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Residents press Blackford County commissioners over wind and solar projects
Summary
Several residents used the public-comment period to oppose wind turbines and solar arrays, raise transparency complaints about public records, and ask when a revised wind ordinance will be considered.
Dozens of residents used public comments at a Blackford County commissioners meeting to criticize proposed wind- and solar-energy projects, allege insufficient transparency on public records, and press officials for a timeline on a revised ordinance.
The speakers said large-scale energy projects would harm farmland, reduce property values and be imposed without adequate local input. “Please respond with full disclosure,” Ed Cancel told commissioners, asking whether public money had been or…
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