alternative energy

It’s a trend you see across the Pacific Northwest; farm acres being converted into alternative energy projects, either wind or solar farms. But one Washington lawmaker says more questions need to be asked before additional production acres are lost. ...

Many solar, wind and other clean energy developers are looking to farmland as a possibility for expansion.   The companies often need clear, flat land in order to harvest the renewable resources of sun and wind.   Dawson Singletary, a peanut, cotton and tobacco farmer in North Carolina leased 34 acres to Strata Solar for a seven-megawatt array, land that Singletary said they could not have made an