Federal, local officials fear foreign-owned solar plant could cause food insecurity – Center Square

"This is local farmland that the residents don’t want to see sold off, leased off to foreign entities,” said Will County Board member Katie Deane Schlotteman. “I am not overwhelmingly against solar. I just think there are places for it that would be better suited than our farmland. I don’t see why we aren’t putting more of them [panels] on warehouses or parking lots.”

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