Virginia Is Working On Its Own Version Of The Green New Deal

Former Rick Santorum press secretary Lauren Appell appeared on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday to break down Virginia’s own version on the Green New Deal.

“What they want to do is they want to take this solar power project that as you said is literally half the size of Manhattan and they want to dump it on a rural Virginia town,”she said.

“And you’re sitting in the studio right now in Manhattan. I don’t need to tell you how large Manhattan is. You navigate it every single day. And obviously these people have some concerns. If this goes through, this is going to be the largest solar power project on the east coast and one of the largest in the world. They have a number of different concerns about this.”

Appell said critics of the solar power plant are concerned about erosion and chemical contamination, as well as potential fires as a result of the new project.

“It’s not just electricity prices, they also have other environmental concerns. Already they’ve had thousands of acres of land cleared, tees cut down. They are concerned about erosion happening,” she said.

“They are concerned about toxic chemicals if this gets going. They’re concerned about potential for fires. If this gets — to put it in perspective, if this goes into effect this is going to be within 50 feet of people’s homes. This is on over 6,000 acres of land. 2,000 of which they can’t even put solar panels on because there are streams and wet lands running through it. Virginia department of equality has already said that these streams are endangered, so they have a lot of different concerns for the environment.”