Massachusetts Rural Lands
The Massachusetts Hilltowns are under threat from large-scale industrial solar companies, foreign owned, receiving Massachusetts Tax Payer incentives, cherrypicking prime farmland for their profits. We are fighting for our land, our water, and our right to self-govern.
Who We Are
Led by a growing coalition of over 400 Hilltown residents, we strongly oppose aggressive, high-risk industrial solar and battery storage projects that threaten the character, safety, and sovereignty of our communities.
"People think if it's clean energy, it must be low risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a disaster waiting to happen."
We do not oppose renewable energy. We oppose the industrial plundering of our sacred land — our farmland, our watersheds, and our right to determine our own future.
MassDEP has issued security alerts to water and BESS operators that actors from China and Iran pose a considerable threat to public safety.
Thousands of acres of prime farmland, forest, and wildlife habitat permanently destroyed.
Industrial installations threaten the aquifers and streams that feed our wells and watersheds.
State energy mandates override local zoning laws, stripping towns of the right to govern themselves.
The Land We Defend
Press Coverage
March 1, 2026
More than 400 residents in the Hilltowns push back against industrial solar projects and battery storage systems threatening their health, safety, and welfare.
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