It is hard for me to believe that McKean County would let a foreign company come in and destroy nearly 700 acres of undeveloped land for 30 temporary jobs. This “green energy” project, a proposed solar array in Sergeant Township, is a scam.

The carbon footprint to create it is greater than the returns by far. This is a project that would never be allowed to occur in other areas. It will look like an airport runway at night for the next 20 years.

Meanwhile, regarding Guy Ciarrocchi’s RealClearPennsylvania column on data center opportunities in Wednesday’s edition of The Era, the oil and coal industries raped Western Pennsylvania lands for decades, leaving generations of taxpayers to pick up the tab on millions of dollars of cleanup costs. Hell, Quaker State and Pennzoil moved their headquarters out of Pennsylvania.

These data centers use 300,000-500,000 gallons of water a day for, on average, 22 jobs, another poor tradeoff along with any proposed wind farm. Keep in mind the politicians get paid off by interest groups. They care little about environmental impact; they don’t live there.

An example to consider is the owner of a coal company in West Virginia, with water so polluted by his mining operation, had his own personal water pumped in. All I can say is do your homework on these things — the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Ken Dawe, Pittsburgh