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AG rules against Southwick’s temporary moratorium on solar arrays and BESS systems
MassLive.com ^

Posted on 05/05/2026 1:14:07 PM PDT by matt04

The attorney general’s office has ruled against Southwick’s adoption of a temporary moratorium on building large-scale solar arrays and battery energy storage systems in town, which means companies can now apply for a permit to install those systems.

“If a company puts in an application, we’d have to move forward through our current process and hear it within 60 days,” said Town Planner Alvin Allen about the ruling.

The Southwick Planning Board began discussing the idea of having a zoning bylaw drafted to place a moratorium on them in late December. Those discussions came after Blandford and Westfield residents successfully prevented an attempt by a company to install a battery energy storage systems on Medeiros Way in April 2025, following much opposition to these renewable energy systems.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: solar; southwick

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For those not from the area, Southwick is a rural/suburban town of about 9k people on the CT/MA border border in the "notch" of CT. Once again, all the leftists in Boston want solar, wind, etc.....jut not in their back yard.
1 posted on 05/05/2026 1:14:07 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

I had no idea a state’s Attorney General can make findings of law? I thought that’s the courts function, from local magistrate to to state supreme courts?


2 posted on 05/05/2026 1:17:08 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: blackdog

It’s MA. Anything for the green scam.


3 posted on 05/05/2026 1:19:30 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

“For those not from the area, Southwick is a rural/suburban town of about 9k people on the CT/MA border border in the “notch” of CT”

Lived in Southwick back in 1970.. Lake Congamond was party central.


4 posted on 05/05/2026 1:23:46 PM PDT by TexasGator (I1.1..)
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