Hundreds against Silfab pack Fort Mill park, vow to keep fight to move plant

At Fort Mill’s Elisha Park on a sunny Friday afternoon, there were kids playing and moms and dads watching in 80-degree temperatures. A postcard for the suburbs, surely.

But along with the regular park-goers were at least 300 people who were not there to rush down the slide or run around. Those people came together, the small and the tall, the old and the young, carrying signs, to continue to fight against the Silfab Solar plant a couple miles away that has dominated the news all week.

Two times, chemical problems came to light at Silfab this week. Including on Friday when Silfab officials told The Herald — when questioned at a news conference —one “drip” of acid had been going on for a week, but the public never knew about that until Thursday. Company officials said the drip did not require notification to regulators…

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