Sam Stamper lives in Council Hill, a small community south and west of Muskogee made up mostly of open fields.

"We were just a little old farm town, and we were proud of it," Stamper said. "Nowadays you drive down through here, and you see the construction for what's coming."

What's coming is a massive solar panel project. The land used for the plan, called High Spring Solar just north of Council Hill, totals around 4,500 acres.

"To change the scope of this land the way that we are, it's unbelievable to me," Stamper said. "Sickening in a lot of ways."

Residents voiced two key concerns. First, what they call a lack of transparency.

"It's frustrating to me that residents here, state officials, had no idea the magnitude of the project, and it was happening before we figured it out," Stam

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