Kansas Family Battles to Lease Land for Solar Farm – Fight Over Green Energy Fuels Heated Property Dispute
GARDNER, Kansas – A 93-year-old woman, Donna Knoche, stood tall at the Johnson County Commission hearing on June 6, 2022, ready to defend her family’s land rights and their ability to benefit from it. This land has been in her family since her grandfather first homesteaded it in the 1860s. Knoche and other landowners were facing off against those who were advocating for a utility-scale solar panel project known as the West Gardner plan. The …