As developers offer prices that state preservation programs can't match, Connecticut has lost nearly 1,000 farms and 65,000 acres of farmland in a decade — and farmers say rising taxes, energy costs and weak milk prices are making it harder to hold on.
Gov. Ned Lamont criticized the loss of farmland and other open space for the construction of Connecticut’s largest solar array on Tuesday. But he stopped short of expressing support for a moratorium on further solar development in towns at the epicenter of the state’s solar industry.
The Connecticut Siting Council approved a 30-megawatt expansion of the Gravel Pit Solar facility over the objections of residents who say East Windsor is already shouldering a disproportionate share of the state's large-scale solar development.