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Ned Lamont: “Taxpayer dollars are going in to preserve [open space] as…”

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Governor Ned Lamont visits two CT towns at the center of a growing solar farm dispute

Published | Video Starts at 01:02

It makes some sense to me. But let me think about it. Make sure they're always there for agriculture and not development. Coming in, trying to preserve that land. Taxpayer dollars are going in to preserve [open space] as best we can right now. And this is something that's going in the exact opposite direction. I wouldn't have called the thing I was looking at, what do you guys call it, the gravel pit or something. (01:02–01:07)

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