A heated debate over renewable energy has come to a head in Butler County.

On Wednesday night, Buffalo Township supervisors voted to move forward with a controversial solar farm project despite strong opposition from many homeowners.

"It's not going to do me be a bit of good," Buffalo Township resident Norm Gray said.

Gray is in the majority. He said he's resisted the proposed solar panel farms in his community since the onset. But despite his and his neighbors' disapproval, the once beautiful view off his back porch, he says, will soon be gone.

"They're going to cover all these fields, cover a corn field, a soy bean field and naturally no one wants to look at that. I just can't picture that corn field over there with all these green panels just covering the entire field," Gray said.

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