Silfab Solar COO addresses health, safety concerns about controversial manufacturing plant in exclusive interview
WCNC Charlotte’s Austin Walker spoke to Treff MacDonald about concerns that Fort Mill residents have over the plant’s potential health and environmental impacts.
FORT MILL, S.C. — On Thursday, WCNC Charlotte got an inside look at Silfab Solar, a solar panel manufacturing plant in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Residents in the area have said they are not on board with the location due to concerns about the plant’s potential health and safety impacts on the area.
WCNC Charlotte’s Austin Walker took the residents’ questions to Silfab Solar’s COO Treff MacDonald.
Some residents in the area have compared the plant to a different manufacturing plant in York County – one that residents say has put their health in jeopardy from the chemicals they use and release.
Why Fort Mill?
MacDonald said they have a plant in Washington and are looking to expand to the Southeast Region. He said they looked at Tennessee, Georgia, and both of the Carolinas, but York County was picked due to county incentives and proximity to a major city.
The location is also off a highway and would be easy to transport.
