Livermore residents and others are raising concerns and opposition to two solar projects in the planning stages in the city.

Several community members spoke during public comment at the Sept. 22 Alameda County supervisors meeting about the projects in the North Livermore Valley. The SunWalker Energy and Aramis Renewable Energy projects combined would encompass hundreds of acres of what is now agricultural land.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.