Which do you think is better for Rhode Island’s environment: Building more land-based solar energy facilities or leaving farms and forests intact instead of taking them for electricity production?

Even as more utility-scale solar energy facilities are being built in Rhode Island, there is a backlash against where they are being sited. Many are planned for existing farms or forests (the solar farm pictured here is located on a former landfill in Johnston), and some environmentalists believe that cutting down trees or covering up productive farmland for solar energy generation is not the best use of the land. What do you think?

Which do you think is better for Rhode Island’s environment: Building more land-based solar energy facilities or leaving farms and forests intact instead of taking them for electricity production?

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Building more solar energy facilities

Leaving farms and forests intact

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