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Published: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Florida Power & Light Sunshine Gateway Solar Energy Center. Photo credit: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Shutterstock In this aerial view from a drone, the Florida Power & Light Sunshine Gateway Solar Energy Center is seen on March 15 in Lake City, Fla. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
A northern Florida town is at the center of a clash between renewable energy developers and residents of a historically Black community one that highlights an emerging rift between President Biden s environmental justice and clean energy goals.
Many Archer residents are descendants of slaves and some of the nation s earliest Black landowners.
And they want nothing to do with a 50-megawatt solar and 12-MW battery storage project proposed by Origis Energy and Gainesville Regional Utilities, or GRU. The project would span roughly 600 acres, and developers said the panels would be tucked behind a buffer of trees. Yet in residents eyes, a utility-scale solar array is no
William Richard Carter was born on April 22, 1833, on the Nottoway County farm of his parents, Martha Anderson Craig Gregory Carter and Sharpe Carter, a farmer, sometime schoolmaster, and charter member of the Nottoway Library Society. Carter excelled in his studies at Hampden-Sydney College from 1848 until 1852, when he graduated with high honors in chemistry. Exhibiting talent as an essayist, he served as clerk for the college’s Union Literary Society and in 1850 and 1851 was elected vice president.
Recommendations from his professors led to Carter’s employment in February 1853 at the Flat Rock Female Seminary in Lunenburg County, but after two years he became restless. He inquired about buying a newspaper, but nothing came of it. Carter unsuccessfully sought the mathematics chair at Hampden-Sydney in 1856 and suffered another disappointment when Amelia Trotter ended their engagement. Discouraged and frustrated, he resorted to drink for a time before deciding to seek his fortu
Culpeper Star-Exponent
The 1,700-acre Maroon Solar project of North Carolina-based Strata Solar goes back before the Culpeper County Planning Commission at 7 p.m. this Wednesday night in the auditorium at Eastern View High School.
Consideration of the resubmittal comes some four months after the company pulled its original application for the solar power project on mostly cleared timberland near Raccoon Ford, zoned for agricultural use.
The proposal faced opposition from neighbors and others regarding its size and the impact on rural viewshed, natural resources and environment, and the historic nature of the remote area near the Rapidan River. The parcel is bisected by the Dominion Power transmission line to which the project would connect.
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EDITORâS NOTE: Americaâs COVID-19 death rate has skyrocketed since Thanksgiving, and disease experts say weâre in for a hard winter. But the nation has surmounted tough times before, just as Culpeper County did in the Civil War winter of 1863-64.
In December 1863, three years of what Shakespeare would call a âgrim-visaged warâ had already devastated Culpeper.
But matters were about to get a whole lot worse for the countyâs war-weary residents hunkered down between the Rappahhanock and Rapidan rivers.
Before the Civil War concluded, two dynamics collided head-on in Culpeper County, and one reality triumphed over the other, 157 years past.