Posted on 06/06/2023 8:51:01 AM PDT by george76
Environmentalists are OK with destroying the environment
“More likely, the solar company will just go out of business. As will all the other companies involved.”
Exactly right. The owners will fold up their tent and go start another scammy solar business using endless government subsidies. It’s one giant CON game.
They love to climb.
“Gotta be a mental illness”
Very true. They are immune to facts, logic, engineering analysis, basic economics, and scientific evidence...but they FEEL that they are doing the right thing. You have a bunch of technologically ignorant, uneducated greeniacs setting energy policy where FEELINGS matter most.
Mentally ill, indeed. As are ALL people who believe communism can work if done by the “right people.”
“it’s hard to engineer to meet a constantly shifting target”
Utilities optimized power systems just for that. You had baseload plants running 24x7 that don’t change output much throughout the day. You had intermediate plants that could cycle up and down somewhat. And you had gas-fired combustion turbines that could start and stop quickly (as well as ramp up and down quickly) to meet rapidly changing load requirements.
All of that is being absolutely devastated by the “non-dispatchable” (i.e., that’s a nice way to say “uncontrollable”) power from wind and solar. Hence the NERC warnings that we are going to face shortages, intermittent power, extended outages, and disaster.
When will CONgress address this? How many more safe/effective renewable energy providers will be sued? Likely inact some POS legislation to protect the providers right? Yeah, it’s that Griffin’ crazy out there.
Great perspectives and great point about how timber companies would be treated. Thanks for adding that.
The two-tier systems of environmental law are absolutely evil. There is no equal justice under the law any more. The government turns a blind eye to their pet projects.
The defendant company should have researched the plaintiff attorney a bit better. If they had done so they would settled the case and given the plaintiffs something that would be considered a “win”.
The last I heard attorney Jim Butler had the record for the largest jury award in the state (not sure if that is still true). He seldom loses a case and regularly obtains large sums for his clients. A number of articles have been written regarding his “wins” over the years. You can easily find them with a search. He is not a shyster. He is just a good attorney who advocates strongly for issues that are important to not only his clients but others as well.
In addition, Judge Clay Land is a “country boy” having grown up in south Georgia, in an area where the land is the livelihood for many people and everyone is a steward of the property around them. He graduated from UGA law school which still teaches law (and certainly did when he graduated in the 80s). Yep, the solar company picked the “short straw” all the way around on this case.
he companies “created, operated, and maintained a nuisance … that caused sedimentation to pollute plaintiffs’ wetlands, streams, and lake. The court further finds that this nuisance has continued for approximately two years unabated,” Judge Land said in his order.
Sounds like Solar gets a pass in regulation. Unlike other corporations.
Dumb designs if sonar farms are causing erosion, that’s a Very fixable problem
“Maybe goats could eat the weeds and saplings down.”
Goats would use the solar panels as a playground. Trust the voice of experience on this.
“Goats will climb onto the solar panels.”
That bears repeating. It seems that people with experience raising goats never have new vehicles either.
Virtually every residential solar panel installer here in NH has gone out of business. Including the one my daughter/son in law bought their array from just five years ago.
A few nuclear power plants would produce more steady power on much much less land then the solar. Nuclear even works at night!
More here with photos:
https://www.ajc.com/news/couple-awarded-135m-after-solar-project-turns-their-lake-to-mud-hole/BZ6BYXQREJCDROQV6ZASUW5WOI/
The company is involved in many sites. Pretty much wrecked the landscape:
https://greenpoweremc.com/emc-solar-sites
That company polluted a small 21 acre pond that was once owned by a lawyer with his law partners.... bad move. He had won 8 past $100 million verdicts. This was his ninth!
https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2023/05/02/another-nuclear-verdict-federal-jury-awards-135-5m-to-georgia-property-owners-over-solar-companys-pollution/?slreturn=20230506125506
“It seems that people with experience raising goats never have new vehicles either.”
There is a good reason for that. An old car makes a good toy for the goats in a field. However, if they escape from that field, the vehicle you currently drive works just as well for them as a toy.
This is a city thing. The city or county engineer is supposed to make sure the work site doesn’t pollute or affect the land around it.
One of the reasons you NEVER give a puppy one of your OLD sneakers as a chew toy. That puppy does not know this difference in that old pair of Pro Cons and a new pair of Air Jordans.
Kinda like goats don’t know the difference in a old rusted Bel Air and a new Mercedes.
I’m all for making the greens pay for damages, but $135,000,000? How much was the Harris’s property worth before the damage occurred? Of course juries have no problem making someone else pay ridiculous sums, after all it’s not their money.
“I was told that when land is cleared for solar farms, the operator must basically “nuke” the soil. Can’t have tall weeds, trees, etc...growing up among the panels, as constant need to mow and weed hundreds of acres is a big labor cost”
IBM Boulder uses sheep.
WOW! Green Energy and Green Water! Way too go.....
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