Rhino’s Scott Yost reports N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is coming home to Guilford County —-specifically to diss the proposed Project Haystack—- the proposed data center park on the prison farm site:
Troxler’s fight against the project will place him in direct opposition to others in state government who are attempting to move the project forward.
Plans were for Troxler’s May 14 press conference to be announced on Monday, May 12. However, when the Rhino Times discovered those plans and asked Troxler the nature of his upcoming event, the agriculture secretary was willing to offer a preview. He said the press conference will be part of his attempt to stop the proposed $103 million project that would be built on about 1,800 acres of what’s now largely farmland.
….Troxler said he’s prepared to do what he can as the state’s agriculture commissioner to see that the land in and around the Prison Farm remains farmland. He said it’s a lack of foresight that’s driving the zealous attempts to develop the land, which, he said, is one of Guilford County’s most valuable resources.
“I’m going to indicate my support for derailing Project Haystack,” Troxler said.
Speculation is Project Haystack cause might already lost, as Commissioner Hank Henning tells Yost “I can’t tell you the last time that I heard it discussed.”
