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What a crap, gotcha headline. There's dust from construction...much like there's dust following harvest or when planting. There's land that is leased too, but that does not preclude future crop growth on the region
When the topsoil blows away, what's left?
edit -- No, really. What's left?
I never remember hearing any complaints about the construction for fracking installations. Which, where I'm at, it's just about every farm.
But that has nothing to do with the solar power and more to do with the construction company that did the work in a way the farmer didn't like. This article is just a small land dispute wrapped up as propaganda that solar panels are somehow always bad for farmers.
Solar panels do not require the removal of top soil.
Dead dirt. No nutrients. Would be like you trying to eat the dirt, to the plants you try to plant.
Useless, gritty, and harmful.
No, not "dead" dirt. Usually what's left is the clay (called lodgement till) from when the last monster glaciers receded from much of North America. And that is shit soil to try and grow anything in because it's essentially various sizes of ground up rock (ranging in size from boulders to fine dust).