Irate farmers blast environmental harm caused by solar array

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Irate farmers blast environmental harm caused by solar array
By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |October 21st, 2021

Farmers in central Virginia’s Louisa County got a glimpse of the much-acclaimed green energy future – and they don’t like what they see.

Instead of the clean power they were promised, they are dealing with pollution – and lots of it.

Stormwater runoff from Dominion Energy’s Belcher Solar project has spilled into nearby Harris Creek, temporarily turning it into a raging river that has flooded land adjacent to the project causing widespread erosion.

A month-long investigation by Richmond TV station WTVR documents the damage the project has caused. To construct the 1,300-acre (just over two square miles) industrial-scale Belcher Solar array, Dominion Energy clear-cut trees and other vegetation on a parcel that is slightly higher than the surrounding land. And when the area is hit by heavy rains, nearby property owners suffer the consequences.

https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/21/irate-farmers-blast-environmental-harm-caused-by-solar-array/

[EdinVA]

That is odd.  This solar array is only a few miles from the nuclear power plant. 

Does not make sense to me unless Dominion is planning on shutting the power plant down.

[Kamaji]

That is odd.  This solar array is only a few miles from the nuclear power plant. 

Does not make sense to me unless Dominion is planning on shutting the power plant down.

It may merely be that was the land they had available.

[Elderberry]

That is odd.  This solar array is only a few miles from the nuclear power plant. 

Does not make sense to me unless Dominion is planning on shutting the power plant down.

“There’s nothing unique about the site,” Matthew Meares, a partner with Virginia Solar, said. “It’s got a power line and a willing landowner.”

https://www.thecentralvirginian.com/news/local/massive-solar-field-proposed-in-rural-area-of-louisa-county/article_cadd0d93-69dc-5337-bd68-d0e58eecfb21.html