It used to be that we worried about about kids telling lies. For some time now, the bigger lie is the grown-ups. There are people fighting solar projects in at least ten states. Roger Houser’s ranching business was getting squeezed. The solar project would have helped balance his budget and helped the planet, but “VA’s Page County residents who fought solar development were driven by a not-in-my-back-yard mentality.”
“It’s pretty. It’s open ground,” Houser says of his property. “But it’s like, you know, some panels on it, that’s not going to change it.”