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Fla. solar plans stoke fight over 'environmental racism' - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition

Fla. solar plans stoke fight over 'environmental racism' - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition
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RENEWABLE ENERGY: Fla. solar plans stoke fight over 'environmental racism'

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 ....

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Much-needed funding helps historic Black cemetery in Archer halt decay

Freed slaves built the Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Church, which the cemetery was named for, said Gina Hawkins, executive director of Keep Alachua County Beautiful.
Many of the tombstones lie on the ground with broken bases and covered in dirt, notably worsened from Hurricane Irma damage. Many of the graves were covered by fallen trees.
Continuing her sister s clean-up goal
Lopez’s 96-year-old sister, Clyde Williams, decided to start cleaning up the cemetery in 1999. Williams organized the Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Restoration Organization.
Lopez took over her sister’s initiative in 2016.
“She became ill and asked me if I would take over the cemetery and try to bring it back to life and get the organization going again, which I did,” Lopez said. “We are now a nonprofit organization and what we ve been doing is just trying to raise money to fulfill her goal.” ....

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