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Conservation group and Caroline County commissioners urge opposition to state solar bills, cite battery safety concerns
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Jay Falstad, executive director of the Queen Anne's Conservation Association, thanked the Caroline County commissioners on March 25 for opposing state bills he said would strip local control over solar and battery-storage projects.
Jay Falstad, executive director of the Queen Anne's Conservation Association, thanked the Caroline County commissioners on March 25 for their public opposition to Maryland bills House Bill 1036 and Senate Bill 931, which he said would allow private entities to operate like utilities and remove local zoning and taxing control over solar and battery-storage projects.
Falstad told the board the bills ‘‘represent the single greatest threat to Maryland’s Eastern Shore’’ and urged commissioners to keep pressing the Eastern Shore delegation to record opposition on the floor. ‘‘For the very first time in my memory, it’s allowing private entities to act as a public utility and…
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