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Ned Lamont: “We have legislation in place that guides the siting council…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 00:13

I think we got it wrong here. We're taking open space, we're taking fields and commercializing them. In this case with solar, I think that's going the wrong direction. We have legislation in place that guides the siting council indeed towards what we think are our broad interests. In my broad interest, look, I love clean, renewable power that's also affordable, but I also love open space, protecting open space. And I don't think we have that balance right right now. (00:13–00:20)

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Asserts that there is existing legislation guiding the siting council towards broad public interests.

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