By Frank Kidd
LSU Manship News Service
BATON ROUGE — The House Agriculture Committee advanced a resolution to create a task force to study the impact of using farmland for solar energy developments.
House Concurrent Resolution 45, written by Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, stated that the Louisiana Solar Siting Task Force would “study the impact of, and alternatives to, locating solar energy developments on farmland.”
The discussion featured Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, expressing concern that solar farms would destroy more jobs than they would create and that the task force would be filled by members with ties to the solar farming industry.