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This television news report by Richmond-based WTVR addresses concerns by two Louisa County landowners about excess runoff and flooding caused by the construction of a large industrial-scale solar project near their property.
Access the published report that accompanied the video with this link.
“How Virginia farmers claim Dominion is destroying their land: ‘It’s pretty catastrophic’,” WTVR, 5 Oct 2021, by Laura French
Continue readingCaroline Delays Action on Solar Projects
From the Free-Lance Star, 27 Jan 2022
This week’s Caroline Board of Supervisors meeting focused on whether to move forward with proposals for solar energy farms in the county.
But after listening to public comments and applicant presentations on two minor solar energy facilities and one major facility, supervisors voted to delay their decision for four months.
Continue readingTwo additional solar projects are planned near a mega-solar site in southwestern Pittsylvania County, not far from Danville. Every large solar project installed so far in Virginia has resulted in significant run-off and sediment flow into nearby creeks, rivers, and lakes; at least one of these projects will be in the Dan River watershed.
“Solar projects planned near mega site, Java”
John Crane, Danville Register & Bee, 24 Jan 2022, accessed 25 Jan 2022
Two solar projects are planned in Pittsylvania County.
An 800-acre, 125-megawatt project is anticipated near the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill in the southwestern part of the county. Another 60-megawatt project covering about 370 acres is expected in Java in the area of Route 57 and Halifax Road.
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