It’s strange, but true. Over 400 acres of forestland in Michigan will be cut down and cleared in order for solar panels to be placed. All for “green energy” in order to meet a pretty high “climate goal.”
A 420-acre swath of state forestland will be cleared for a solar farm near Gaylord under a lease agreement with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, confirmed a top state official.
Officials with the DNR (Department Of Natural Resources) recently assessed 1,200 acres of public trust land in Otsego County near a major power transmission line to decide whether it was suitable for solar arrays. Agency leaders ultimately decided to lease 35% of that land to accompany other adjacent solar projects already in the works.
The clear-cutting is part of an effort to help the state meet it’s 100% clean-energy efforts.
This comes as the DNR faces dwindling revenues from hunting and fishing licenses, and Michigan falls behind building enough renewable energy fast enough to risk not meeting a key state climate goal – 100% clean energy by 2040.
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This goal could be missed despite the $129 million of taxpayer funds the Biden administration gave to the state to accelerate the development of green projects. Michigan received its portion of the millions from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
Certainly, nothing says “reducing inflation” like spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to bulldoze trees in order to save the planet.
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