Trouble is brewing across the Midwest.
Fuelled by President Joe Biden‘s climate incentives, renewable energy projects have flooded its sunny and windy sweeps of farmland.
As well as providing megawatts of clean energy, a $130 renewables industry is also dividing tight-knit rural communities.
Michigan farmer Clara Ostrander knows how clean energy can create a filthy atmosphere.
When she heard about the benefits of hosting a solar energy project, she remembered something her dad said four days before he died.
Michigan farmer Clara Ostrander, 57, understands that clean energy can create a dirty atmosphere.
Cows graze on a pasture surrounded by solar panels on a farm in Bruneau, Idaho
‘Don’t sell the farm. Keep it in the family,’ he said.
Skeptical at first, Ostrander ultimately decided to harvest the sun on most of her 120-acre corn-and-soybeans farm south of Detroit.
The 57-year-old believed it would enable her to someday…
