Well, the original article shows that these citizens are concerned that the business is not going to do good to the town, but they did make some, let's say, deb

Well, the original article shows that these citizens are concerned that the business is not going to do good to the town, but they did make some, let's say, debatable addition. [Jane Mann] is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where the plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight. If you put a plant next to, or under, a solar panel, it won't get enough direct sunlight. But "areas near solar panels" would probably be deforested anyway. Another two excerpts from that article, I'm not sure they are much more reasonable than stated by the OP. She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer. [Bobby Mann] said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.