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The wind and solar ‘industries’ always struggle with their neighbours, principally because they treat them as ‘roadkill’.

But that model doesn’t work when those neighbours are determined to fight back, using every legal means available.

Such is the case with Shaun and Amie Harris, who took a solar power outfit to court seeking damages for the nuisance that it had caused by polluting their land with silt and sediment.

The jury awarded them a cool US$10.5 million in damages, and whacked the solar generator and its construction contractors with a further US$125 million in fines for their egregious misconduct.

Bonner Cohen reports on the result below.

Solar farm runoff pollutes property, couple awarded $135 million
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Bonner Cohen
6 June 2023

Inflicting heavy fines on developers of a project billed as supplying clean, renewable energy, a federal jury has awarded a couple in southwest Georgia $135.5 million after runoff from…