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
This is a GREAT award.
Every time I turn around, there’s another ecological catastrophe caused by “green” energy. I never thought of the possibility of solar panels collecting huge amounts of rain water and preventing the water from percolating into the soil (where forests and grasslands used to be pre-solar). The solar runoff pollution runoff ruined the adjoining property.
Another “unintended consequence” of solar.
Yet the greeniacs keep quiet about millions of raptors killed, whales killed, and land ruined by their fetish.
Hope this award will be the first of many around the country!!!! The “little” people matter!!!!!
I’m sure that this bit of news will get zero every time on the government networks
We need to see a couple thousand suck lawsuits and awards to show the green agenda is anything but green.
Also the “climate scientists” who only know about how bad CO2 is cannot predict what will happen when you cover an environment in solar panels. Everything affects everything around it, and changes to one area could drastically alter another.
Solar farms...on our precious woodlands and farms....BIG mistake.
Environmentalists are OK with destroying the environment
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.
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.
Dumb designs if sonar farms are causing erosion, that’s a Very fixable problem
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
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.
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.
WOW! Green Energy and Green Water! Way too go.....
And the soil under the solar panels is unfit for any other purpose - nothing can grow there - may as well pave it over.
There is a 35 megawatt solar farm near Shelbyville TN.
Here is a link for a closeup of it (hopefully it works): https://www.google.com/maps/search/solar+farm+shelbyville+TN/@35.0526867,-86.3534047,38m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
It is 375 acres and is used for Vanderbilt University: https://www.t-g.com/stories/solar-farm-willimpact-county,63675
I had not thought of something like this happening, but it did. Now that adds another reason not to have “renewable energy”. Renewable energy should be used only for EV charging stations. Essential use of electricity (not EVs) should never be supplied by renewables/green energy. It’s not reliable enough.