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Solar panels to move in near Picton
Posted 1 year ago
Mon, Apr 30th, '12 - 10:55 am
The land is being cleared for two big solar panel projects in Prince Edward County.
Northland Power received final approvals from the province for two 10 MW solar installations on Burr Rd., near highway 62, in the County.
Manager of Solar Development for Northland, Mike Lord, says they hope to have the projects running in the spring of next year.
He says they shouldn’t bother the residents living nearby.
Northland and builders, Aecon, are still working on finalizing building permits with Prince Edward County before construction can begin.
When finished, the solar farms will be able to generate enough green power to light up a total of 2600 houses.
Sophiasburgh is quickly becoming the Wolf Island of solar development. Two mega projects are underway on the intersection of 62 and Burr Road. Another mega project approved for Doxee Road, and a third site being cleared at 1637 County Rd. 14. That is three mega projects in a 5 kilometre span.
Residents of Burr Road / County Road 14 can look forward to a decline in property value between 20-50%, depending on their proximity to one of these industrial eyesores.
As a resident of this area, that certainly bothers me!
Residents of this area need to band together and collectively challenge their MPAC valuation. They should also contact local government of their intention to do so.
Look at it this way, might be an eyesore but at least you’ll see it because the air is clean. Kill the solar and wind systems we would be stuck having to fire up Lenox south of Nappnee and burn a tons of gas and oil to produce that power leaving a smog haze all over the area. I think the choice is clear on this one.
Wind and solar proponents, learn from the mistakes of Wolf Island! Do not devistate entire communities by failing to manage the size and concentration of these types of developments. 500+ acres of solar farm in a 5km stretch is way too much. This lack of commons sense is why the wind and solar proponents have lost the support of rural Ontario.
Learn to live with wind its here to stay, you’ll have better luck fighting taxes :)
And actually Wolfe Island is a very successful wind farm it has a 80% uptime and is supported by everyone on the island but one. And they don’t even live the closest to a windmill, most likely they just didn’t own any land that was leased out to put a windmill up on.
Clearing acres of forest will never make these projects green. In fact when the carbon emissions are calculated on the “Belleville South” project (Hwy 62+Burr)the project is green negative.This means that the act has just approved pollution- great job! It is not as if these panels are replacing coal driven power. The project is clearly a scam hidden behind a provincial act that should be legally shut down by our federal representation. The land prostituted out by a former MPP- I think that says it all. Carbon Offset credits are a commodity traded on a virtual bank that allows heavy polluters (oil industry) facing future penalties (elsewhere) to continue to pollute by investing in these type projects-this is the reality.