Amicus Brief

The invasion of these turbines and and solar and stuff is, you know, well we didn’t sign up to live in an industrial park. This is going to affect, a lot livelihoods when you take that many acres out of production that raise feed and food for the people and for the cattle…

We live on a piece of ground that has been in my family since 1925. My dad was actually born, on the land out here. And as I grew up, I was wanting to go to the city.  I left for about eight years, but I didn’t go very far, I was just on the edge of town.  I soon found out that my heart was really on the prairie and wanted to come back to this place…

Our land started in 1884 as being homesteaded. I’m concerned about the overall effect on ground. My granddaughter and grandson would be sixth generation if they so choose to farm. And we would like to preserve it for them. We do have some wind turbines on our property.  That doesn’t concern me personally as much as the solar does…

I grew up my younger years and Treece, Kansas. Mining town. They mined sink. My ten years were spent in Columbus, Kansas. Columbus is located in the valley of strip mines that mined coal. I witnessed at a very young age what the face of poverty and despair, hopelessness, and what it looks like when a once proud community is taken to the ground and destroyed in order to reclamation the water and land…

I’ve lived in Osage County for 20 years and moved to Osage for the, rural hometown feel and to get away from the industrialized cities. It’s, disturbing to me that, an industrial solar developer is wanting to come in and put anywhere from 6,700 to 10,000 acres worth of, solar panels on agricultural land…

I’m a Small System Water Operator for the city of Ford, and I’m just curious to see what the Boot Hill Solar Project does for the environment and if it’ll affect the water aquifer. And if we got any rules from KDHE (Kansas Department of Health and Environment) that we’re going to have to follow because of it…

I’m talking about the economic part of this deal. I mean, it’s crazy. They don’t think of what happens when they get this ground all covered with solar panels. Your elevators, all your your service industries. They’re going bye bye. And the money for the lease a lot of times leaves the country. They don’t stay here. It’s not reinvested…

I am a part of the amicus brief that was filed in Jackson County to stop the development of solar projects without the developers going through the proper channels, research and analysis that is required by federal law for them to do before they start a project.  I am strongly opposed to what these developers are trying to do in counties across Kansas…