Easthampton Residents Reject Small Solar Farm Because it Would Block Their View…of a Dump
November 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM Leave a comment
No, this is not from The Onion:
Photo: Matthew Cavanaugh / The Boston Globe
Who knew sealed landfills had more aesthetic value than solar panels? The city of Easthampton deserves credit for erecting 10,000 solar panels on one landfill to provide enough electricity for 600 homes. But residents of the same city raised NIMBY-ism to head-scratching extremes by successfully blocking a proposal to put panels at another dump. Neighbors complained that the their view of the capped mounds would be disturbed. Neighborhood opposition could be a significant problem as the state looks to its 500 closed landfills as settings for solar-energy farms that would help Massachusetts achieve its goal of 20 percent renewable energy by 2020.
Unbelievable.
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