East Texas Solar Farm Contamination
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- State officials have issued a notice of violation to the operators of a large solar farm in north East Texas. They’re accused of contaminating creeks and rivers in violation of state rules. Spectrum News1 featured the solar company in a special report last year and now, neighboring landowners who opposed the project are saying… “we told you so”.
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We can not destroy the environment in order to save the environment! This is not the way.
THAT’S THE LIBERAL WAY!
@@jameslester3861 no thats greedy corperations .
Making the solar panels use a tremendous amount of energy . They have a shelf life and will end up in land fills or recycled which will also take a tremendous amount of energy. All the 'save' the earth programs are short sighted and it is all about someone making money.
What is really hilarious, is the solar panels are made in China.
It’s not about saving the environment. It’s about money and the power they think they’ll have.
Worked for a solar company, they’re in it for the grants.
Yep.
money talks
Taxpayers are getting fleeced
what big company isn't. American greed
If you give me more of your money so I can give it to my friends to build these safe green energy systems I will make the weather better in 100 years time.
Destroying forest and replacing it with solar farms is the ultimate in stupidity.
With the tremendous amount of scrub land, I see no reason why farmland or woodslands need to be violated for solar or wind
The families & friends of 100+ people who died a couple winters ago would disagree with your point of view. Why? BECAUSE TEXAS NEEDS ENERGY!!!! Our power plants are failing, refusing to fix them, our power grid is failing, with corrupt politicians refusing to acknowledge there is a problem even when the power plants are screaming they need repairs, the heat & lights go out in winter & deep summer.
Power. We need the power. Power is just as important as food nowadayz. DUH! There is room for both.
The ONLY issue here is the solar construction company did not comply with the sediment roll-off. THAT is the actual issue. Period. And they need to be held accountable & FIX IT literally ASAP.
Building solar panel farms is NOT the issue - it is a LONG OVERDYUE necessity Texas desperately NEEDS, and the closed-minded, willfully-ignorant Tx government needs to realize that & support solar & wind energy much much more!!
Most of this green crap isn't environmentally friendly.
Correct! When the primary objective is MONEY, that is the only green that matters. If the environment was the objective we could do it differently for a good outcome.
Need to change going green energy too, kill the earth for$$$$,
This is crap that this affected so many families. Should not be allowed at all EVER !
It should be widespread, but in areas that have windmill complexes, if it’s a cold climate, THEY ALL USE DEISEL POWERED GENERATORS
TO POWER HEATERS FOR THE WINDMILLS, OR THEY CANT PRODUCE ELECTRICITY !!!
All this climate crisis crap is nothing more them money laundering scheme for those that head up and operate these false claims. Real scientists that are not owned will tell the truth. And they do, it’s not on media because it doesn’t work with their financial agendas.
It’s all about the money and nothing more.
Of all the climate crusades over the last 50 years, where has all the money been spent ?
Nothing but lavish lifestyles have been produced of all the crisis.
And stupid people believe it all on their word. What a joke. Follow the money.
@@philliplamoureux9489Think of black or dark colored cars baking in the sun do you feel the radiant heat around them or maybe touch it get burns now picture a solar field that replaced an entire forest of SHADE those crystals actually heat earth in only larger amount together the bigger the field the bigger the bake😂
None of it is environmentally friendly. Everything green introduced is supported by fossil fuels.
Developers don't care. It's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
A True environmentalist DOES NOT destroy the land to try and save it.
should be a law that for every one tree cut down, 5 more trees have to be planted to replace what was cut down.
Like when they excavated for coal
You can tell these people love the land,this is heartbreaking.The developer obviously does not give a damn .When the water is fouled the wildlife habitat suffers.This pollution caused by a solar company with big bucks should have never been given carte blanche to destroy the environment they purportedly were "saving"
Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture - "Annual agriculture is all about living through our concepts... our idea we've imposed on reality & when reality doesn't behave according to our idea, what do we do? We input... we can never input enough to make our false concept correct." th-cam.com/video/kb_t-sVVzF0/w-d-xo.htmlm50s
I would ask people to consider the reflective energy produced by a solar field. Think of all the heat that is reflected back into the atmosphere. Talk about causing climate change, and changing weather patterns. We know that when even small lakes are made the add moisture in the air increases rainfall in the area. Likewise the heat caused by the solar field will dry out the moisture and decrease average rainfall, and slightly increase temperatures in the area. Not so green are the mining methods and waste produced by solar. When you consider the full lifespan effects versus any other form of energy solar is horrendous!
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji Nature don't give AF about whose "property..."
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji *you’re. And also, when your neighbors property pollutes your property and lowers your property values, the law becomes involved. Obviously
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji rural area?
Have all these "environmentalists" forgotten the impact on air quality when you get rid of the trees? It's okay to yell about destroying the forests when it happens in South America but in our country it's "progress".
This a corporate operation. Are you against big business?
@@KadiddlehopperClem Big business blows the tops off mountains too.
It’s all about money- power
People like you are funny. Clearly you have zero understanding how air quailty works and tress are not a vital part of it. Learn where all of that carbon goes before you spout off about trees.
@@KadiddlehopperClemwhich big business do you represent?
The crazy part about this, is the fact that if this were a pipeline project, all of that soil being displaced and the other environmental impacts, wouldn’t be acceptable in any way shape or form…
A great big scam by China Joe and his cabal. Just think how many U.S. politicians are invested in this fraud
Ah yes but, don't you know a stationary pipe is worse for the enivorment then shiping oil here by boat, train, or truck from other countries. Lol sarcasm.
The most important part of this story is, as you said “if it was a pipeline…” and as it should be. It seems to me like someone ignored mitigating all that rain runoff in the first place. Don’t know by y’all keep votin for these corrupt politicians, and their friends.
@@larryrobinson08 Never pee side ways thee government will want their cut of your talents asap..
Your argument for oil is unfounded, for the use of the oil would be worse! Not to mention pipe line leaks!
20 years ago the same people were fighting de-forestation.
It's because most can't see pass their noses... you want a cleaner environment??? Stop using the chemicals and go back to how framing used to be done... really keep a close eye on manufacturers / corporations wastes and exactly what do they do with it... how much cleaner soil and water would be just bu doing that. STOP CUTTING OUR BATURAL ENVIRONMENT DIWN.. WANT TO STOP REALLY BIG FORREST FIRES??... Use teenagers and young adults who are unemployed. ..they could learn skills ,a paycheck , work for forests Service where they could have small cabin like dorms Have caferiteria , and small clinic available ...In states that towns are anywhere to 25 to 75 miles apart where schools go from kto 12th with Head of school and the teachers teaching several grade levels ..high school students are part of emergency response. And fir depts... these kids have responsibility taught from grade school up...
I lost open fields behind my suburban home as a freeway was built there back in the 80's. Just a basic suburban back yard, which today has a large brick wall right up to the back yard. Beautiful open fields with sheep grazing in them which now is a bunch of bricks. Those sheep fields have moved so far south that I need the freeway to go and see them today. Many people have lost their homes because of freeways.
You just want to complain
You would be equally upset had all that traffic used the pre-existing roads or the freeway wasn't built.
@@norml.hugh-mann You just want to complain
You would be equally upset had your boyfriend used the pre-greased dildo up your freeway or if it wasn't greased
@@norml.hugh-mannHe got paid for his piece of land.
They should be sticking those solar panels in the Texas desert.
Solar is illegal there in Texas.
@@markae0 I believe this story is in Texas.
@@markae0 Lots of solar and wind farms in Texas.
@@markae0 LOL!!!! That's completely wrong. There are millions of solar panels in solar farms all over Texas.
These are the same people so worried about the environment! What a bunch of hypocrites!
no it's not. Those people are the useful idiots who think they're helping save humanity because they were told a lie by their leaders who invested money into these inefficient technologies. These are the people profiting off of those people. They don't care about anything but profit.
One man's love of the land and one man's love of money!
it's our own fault for not taking aggressively active roles in our developing society, instead placing our trust in the hands of politicians and corporations. things will get worse before they get better.
THATS RIGHT ! PUNKS LIKE biden SHOULD BE IN PRISON , NOT THE WHITE HOUSE .
Have one going up next to my property, same thing, my creeks are now crap, wildlife is blown out, we spent years and 10's of thousands managing that land for wildlife, deer, turkey, ponds and creeks full of bass, bream and catfish, now we have mud, dust, noise, unsightly industrial power plant (solar panels array) the only thing left is hogs and coyotes and the coyotes are even beginning to move off as their is no longer any small game for them to prey on.
My question is who is going to pay to clean up my land after the first major hail storm passes through, destroys all of those solar panels and the contaminants from the material used to make the panels runs off into the creeks and onto my land.
This is a joke, this isn't saving the earth its destroying it.
THis was nothing about "saving the earth", it's about plundering the taxpayers to line crooked government officials and their buddies pockets. May they all burn in HELL.
Would you prefer fracking of oil?
@@tamijones992 yes
@@tamijones992 Absolutely. If you don't know, fracking oil happens deep underground. No pollution like this. You only need a 100 square foot area. Not hundreds of acres destroyed.
@@tamijones992 do you have any idea how much oil is used in the mining of materials, manufacturing, transportation, sight preparation, and installation and maintenance of solar and wind farms. Also the amount of environmental damage. Impact isn't worth the outcome. Like previous comment it's a out making money not the environment.
The Love of Money is the root of all evil!
Nonsense - a neighbor tried to burn us out of our house because he thought we had too many people living here at the time. It was horribly evil but had nothing to do with money.
i agree with that,we have plenty of horrible people ready to screw their fellow brothers and sisters over for it
Avarice, as Shakespeare said.
This hurts my heart. We moved to North East Texas 2 and a half years ago and it’s beautiful country. The farms and ranches around here respect the land and we don’t need this destruction of the land in the name of the god of renewable energy.
oh sure ! the oil and coal industries do REALLY NICE THINGS , RIGHT ? WAKE UP ! and quit crying over some little bullsh!t while the real filthy scum get away with murder . for one take a look the way the oil companies leave behind tailings ponds right at the edges or major rivers that are so toxic that a worker out at one testing how bad one was fell in and DIED . not like the dog splashing around in some muddy water
@usvp[r3354, I agree, but tell that to Al Zore and Brandon and the climate change enthusiasts.
I would ask people to consider the reflective energy produced by a solar field. Think of all the heat that is reflected back into the atmosphere. Talk about causing climate change, and changing weather patterns. We know that when even small lakes are made the add moisture in the air increases rainfall in the area. Likewise the heat caused by the solar field will dry out the moisture and decrease average rainfall, and slightly increase temperatures in the area. Not so green are the mining methods and waste produced by solar. When you consider the full lifespan effects versus any other form of energy solar is horrendous!
@@joet1669also how long do those solar panels last? How many years do they produce electricity and what happens to them after they are no longer able to produce electricity? 10 years 20 years?
@@joet1669What do you think is better.
Disgusting. The sick part is practically every development project does this! Lakes and ponds in my area are being turned a muddy brown JUST LIKE THIS. Its from clearing and grading all the farmland and woodland to build housing developments (most are speculative, btw). No one seems to care, or more likely they just feel powerless to stop the machine of big business married with local governments who are perpetrating this.
this is exactly want they wanna do with their sustainable development agenda is all about buckle up
Time for war against corrupt lefty governments!
Certainly none of our politicians care because like the companies they serve it is all about making more and more $$$$$!!
Government + big business is the definition of fascism.
And the irony is that those solar panels create heat. Think about it.
The heat comes from the sun. The panels get hot because the sun shines on them.
It’s actually cooler underneath the panels,a situation some vegetable producers are taking advantage of in many places.
Also reduces the need for irrigation. I,too, am appalled by the disregard of corporate greed seen in some massive projects.
I have off-grid solar for my home and an abundant garden. No conflict between the two very successful personal hobbies.
Have you considered the incredible amounts of waste heat from thermal power plants like coal, natural gas and even nuclear power plants? They use an inefficient steam turbine tech basically ripped out from the Victorian era.
Solar heat is already coming from the sun. While thermal power plant station's heat is coming from stored sunshine from eons ago or from atomic energy.
Have a think on that.
@@beyondfossilCoal, gas and nuclear are 'engineered' to provide its nameplate capacity according to demand 24/7 and without the need for backup.
Solar here in Australia, where we're supposed to have optimum resources by way of lots of sunlight, last year produced only 20% of nameplate capacity on average over the year. We are being duped, most panels are coming from China so who do you think benefits most? That would be China and the politicians who sold us out. What happens when they cut off the supply of renewables?
@@beyondfossil every form of energy creates heat in some form. Noted physicist Stephen Hawking ironically predicted that the earth will cease to exist in less than 600 years due to global warming, not by gases, but by the over use of electricity. Who am I to doubt someone of his knowledge.
@@beyondfossil Welcome to the 21st century. Natural gas plants are gas turbine, but most modern ones are combined cycle (gas turbine, with waste heat from the exhaust operating a closed cycle steam turbine). Simple cycle gas plants are about 345% efficient, while combined cycle plants are around 60% efficient; modern photovoltaic solar is 17-20% efficient.
Don't feel bad - the public at large has a very poor education in bulk electric power. Many believe critical equipment is connected to the internet. (Retired after 34 years with a Fortune 100 electric company.)
I thought wetlands were supposed to be protected. It would also be interesting to see how the removal of the vegetation and installation of the solar farm raises the temperature of the area.
What is going under panels? Run off could be an ongoing problem.
Wetlands are protected only for you, the little land owner. But, for the developers, they can pay an environmental expert to get them the permits. If the developers had to abide by the rules a little landowner had to abide by, we wouldn't be having these issues.
@@heidiw8406Here in Australia when endangered species of birds or other native wildlife are identified on a proposed site, all the developers have to do is purchase certificates and they will be absolved of any responsibility for the loss of these creatures.
@@margaretarmstrong2445Sure does sound like Australia, typical BS.
@@dpirkl4560 the video said grass and wildflowers .these people act like this is never ending. an oil company drilled a pad on our property. there was a berm around the whole pad to prevent run off . well huge rains happened i went out after the rain stopped . the oil company had dug through the berm to allow the fluid to run off the well site . the company rep POPOed my complaint .. said it was only water . i said i worked in drilling and know it was not just water.. i didn't go to the state just let the oil company know i didn't like what they did..
in the same quarter a couple years before. a blow out from a well across the road covered i estimated 10 acres of crop with oil. the well blew in before the rig crew installed the BOP.. i talked to the consultant HUH . i said the crop is black. then i called the state field inspector she said i didn't notice that . i look at it tomorrow i have to pick up my kid at daycare ..i wasn't too worried about the oil and told the renter .it probably wouldn't hurt anything he doubted my view. but in the end only about 12 sq ft died. and the crop came up in that spot the next year
Near Crockett, Texas is having the same similar issue. Cut down all the trees and cover farmlands for thousands of acres of solar panels. Sickening!
It's better than hundreds of wind mills.
You think it was bad when the gas pipelines froze and the electric grid failed wait until the only major electrical generation is from solar. The power outages of the future in Texas will be catastrophic because of this.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 Do you think the electric utility engineers are dumb enough to design a system that will fail in such an obvious way? They won't. Providing reliable power is their job. They aren't idiots. Solar will never be the only source of power. Texas has abundant wind resources. They are already in use and that will accelerate. Coal will go away, but nuclear, hydro, and high efficiency gas plants will be around for a while.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 30 bucks a kilowatt hour is what caused the Great Texas Fubar. Right now Solar and Windmills are pumping out 20 to 30% of The power on the Texas Ercot Grid. That fact alone is keeping electricity prices down.
Which is so ironic. Given deforestation impacts climate change but then the activists have nothing to say.
Deforestation for the environment, what a concept.
Clearing a natural habitat could open them up to extreme weather like flooding if it rains heavily there.
oh, that's great, so they can peddle more climate agendas
But yet you don't feel the need to make the same comment on all the drilling or oil company.projects with outnumber these type 20 to 1 in Texas.
Yall only care about the environment when something is being done to prevent damaging it further with dirty fossil fuels. In fact anytime environmental concerns jeprodiz3 fossil fuel projects yall start calling environmentalists coocoo and clueless.
@@norml.hugh-mann an oil Derrick is effectively tiny compared to the acres required for a solar farm, and wind power also requires a substantial quantity of land... When an oil Derrick is done the land is reclaimed like all mining sites too and it becomes countryside because you can't build in it... A lot of the hills you see are old slag heaps reclaimed as open land... So as far as footprints and longterm impact I'm not sure wind and solar beat anything, especially given the limited returns on investment... It's inconsistent, low power density propaganda nothing more...
It's just impossible to generate the power needed in the UK for 33 million cars with an average 12kWh consumption a day per car... Renewables just can't do it, it's mathematically impossible...
@@norml.hugh-mann who are you even addressing?
When those panels are disposed, we shall be covered with billion tons of toxic materials! DeepState ROCKS!
Unlike those friendly billions and billions of gallons of gasoline and diesel which are so good for our beaches, streams and the air that we breath? Please. At least they could remove everything and the soil is still there uncontaminated. It would regrow eventually unlike an open pit mine, a coal field or a oil covered beach.
@@dzerres What planet are you on? You are completely wrong. It will take many years to recover.
The panels will last 25-30 years,long after the silt has settled. They then can be used structurally for decades even if they have no energy collection capacity.
I live in Lamar County just north of Hopkins County. It is beautiful ,rich agricultural land with lots of dairy farms. I wish they would use a little imagination to integrate solar production with agriculture and rural homesteading. It really is beautiful country.
Unfortunately these corporate projects are short-term,bottom-line focused and have little concern for local quality of life.
One good result of lower cost solar is that strip mining of low grade coal is being shut down along with a coal-fired power plant in Monticello just to the east of Hopkins County.
@@dzerres@philliplamoureux9489T hink of black or dark colored cars baking in the sun do you feel the radiant heat around them or maybe touch it get burns now picture a solar field that replaced an entire forest of SHADE those crystals actually heat earth in only larger amount together the bigger the field the bigger the bake😂
There should be rules and laws that NO Forest, pastures,open fields should be used for solar. It should be strictly roof tops
And over parking lots.
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And all new housing construction should be required to be pre wired for solar! Retrofitting is every expensive compared to incorporating the infrastructure to eventually add solar. Then the homeowner could decide if they want to add solar panels or tiles. It would only add a thousand dollars or so to the build.
Yeah they are trying that in Maryland. Take over home owners roofs. We get calls day and night. No compensation to speak of.
That would make to much sense and no provide enough opportunities for politicians to line their pockets .
Imagine that solar sites being so destructive. I am sure they thought about it before they moved forward…….. NOT FOR A SECOND ITS ONLY ABOUT THE MONEY. So sad.
I’m glad I’m an old man and have only a few years left to witness this environmental destructive insanity… I’m also an outdoorsman and over the years I’ve come to the understanding that all life matters and not just human life…
That's nothing to be glad about as it happened on your watch too. Humans are the purveyors of death and destruction where every they go and the most evasive species ever in Earth's history. It is what it is and nothing will ever change.
The greed of mankind for wanting more is shameful. Earth was a healthyer place before the industrial revolution. How much more technology do we really need.
I'm the same as Keith, I'm so glad I'm on the downslope of life so I don't have to see what has become of this world. I no longer bother getting involved in the battle to save our way of life. I leave it up to others from now on!
Thank you, Keith
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And they really believe they're on the morally correct side.
Muddy water killed my mother.
The people making money off of this stuff know they are not on the morally correct side. The people who believe those people, do.
@@heidiw8406 WTF? You have people that raise cows and pigs on land just the same. They clear-cut the land for the animals , the animals to make money. How is that moral and harvesting sunlight immoral?
What's gonna happen to the solar panels when the first hail storm hits it ?
The other day a solar farm here in central California caught itself on fire. Since it was unmanned it burned for a bit before anyone got to it.
Wait until they find out how IN-efficient the technology is … and how often the shit doesnt work….
Windmills in the US last less than20 years and never make enough power to pay for thier construction ,,,let alone the half a million bucks to decommission one...
They allready KNOW how inefficient they are ,,, its just that someone ,somewhere is getting a huge kickback payday for letting the project happen
@@vonbuzz9009 Yes, Covid proved that things don't have to make sense and an agenda can be pushed without logic or facts to back it up
A good example of what those with target-fixation like to pretend doesn't exist.
Very sad I pray that the Lord will interve for these farmers...
@Troubles0125 ,
It's only 1800 acres and if you look before the 1 minute mark you will see the solar farm and do you see the green grass growing ?
I surely do !
Wild flowers will start growing and that attracts bees that pollinate every fruit tree , and vegetables within 5 miles .
But they don't tell you that part .
Only that 1 single neighbor is upset .
The neighbors still have they land but I can bet you that they haven't planted one single tree on their land either .
But again , they don't tell you that part .
@@jimthomas1989wow, how do you know so much about Engie’s Dike,Tx solar power plant. Are you psychic?
Its amazing how "green energy" is so destructive of ecosystems.
Funny how “ GREEN ENERGY” is everything but that .
So the EPA will go after a single farmer that created a lake on his property and then decided not to, to force him to keep it, but not a hair nor peep out of them for this massive violation.
The agency should be disbanded. Half the time they destroy as much as the people they pretend to harass.
It's all about the money
EPA stands for Eviron-""mental"" Poison Agency
I have the same near me and getting closer, industrial solar invasion with power lines running throughout, used to me scenic farmland, they ran a 100ft tall power line for over 80 miles using the argument that it's "clean energy" as they rip down thousands of trees in the construction.
There's plenty of places to put that without ripping up a forest
How many times do we seem to go down this road of trying to do something to make things better only to make things worse?
And we call it...wait for it...PROGRESS!
Every time you accept that your government can regulate or control anything it always winds up with your money going to their expert friends and loads of unintended consequences.
This is what happen when we give money to people who has never owned a real business in their lives.
lol So far it is a Temporary issue with some muddy water..That is FAR from "Contaminated"
@@redneckhippiefreak look up the definition of contamination. Facts help
I have the misfortune of living in a Renewable Energy Zone in the Central Tablelands of NSW Australia. They are installing hundreds of thousands of hectares of wind and solar in our region, agricultural land. The land here has many areas with stands of native trees and scrub. The area is teeming with native birds and wildlife. One of the solar projects being built a few kilometres up the road will utilise 1,700 hectares and 1,300 of it will be bulldozed down to bare earth removing all native trees, scrub and every blade of grass.
The larger animals such as kangaroos,wallabies, wombats and emus are driven out and fenced off from familiar territory and water sources. The smaller animals such as echidnas, turtles, reptiles and small marsupials that cannot escape in time will be bulldozed over and destroyed.
A proposed wind project near us will utilise 7,300 hectares and will see the installation of 69 wind turbines each at 7MW and standing at 280m high and 200m wide. The largest onshore turbines in the world and they will be a few metres short of the tallest structure in Sydney. An instant industrial city just a few kilometres from our beautiful historic town. There have been 19 endangered species of birds identified in our region, as well as endangered bats and Koala habitat. We have large flocks of different varieties of parrots that regularly fly across the intended site, as well as Wedge Tailed Eagles, Nankeen Kestrels and other raptors. We also have waterbirds and finches and numerous other avian species. In the case of endangered species, all the developers have to do is purchase certificates and they will be absolved of any responsibility for the loss of these creatures.
At just over halfway through the planning stages for our region alone they are up to 32 projects and so far they are up to 800 wind turbines. There will be millions upon millions of solar panels, an unknown number of inverters, substations and kilometres of transmission lines.
The environmental damage being done globally is criminal. As is the humanitarian degradation in Africa and China. The toxic waste from the mining, processing, manufacturing and end of life disposal of renewables is already deeply concerning. What is happening around the globe is a disgrace and has nothing to do with saving the planet. It's about power and greed.
I was sad to see the NIMBY label thrown out there here in the comments. It is devastating to see your sense of place, your home being destroyed. Few people grasp the scale of the destruction that will be necessary to implement the 'green' transition. It will take many generations to undo the damage. Please educate yourselves, and then bombard your political representatives.
@Margaret Armstrong Thank you for sharing the details of this sad disaster. The first proximal answer is solar on every roof, a space already built. What you are seeing is being done for money, not a 'green transition'. The idea is not to switch over for the environment's sake. But a new form of gold rush for the rich to replace the pot of gold of oil. All the capacity you are describing is not for Australians, it is for a new export industry as an international energy supplier because open, natural Australia has "exploitable space" The leadership in Canberra is still "money to be made" bought off politicians.
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@@philliplamoureux9489 What I described is just one Renewable Energy Zone. There are many throughout Australia and these are simply to replace the capacity of coal-fired power plants that are being shut down and blown up. What they are building now will not be enough to supply domestic use, let alone charging EV's and running industry. There is one massive solar project in the Northern Territory that is hoping to send energy to Singapore but the scale and cost is insane and the loss of energy over thousands of kilometres will be a problem. The project was in administration recently and I'm not sure what stage it's at now. Two of our billionaires were squabbling over details and a company in Singapore backed out. Singapore would be better off installing SMR's, it would be cheaper in the long run and they would receive clean reliable energy 24/7 without the need for backup.
A report was put out this year on the 'output' of total nameplate wind and solar in Australia on average over all of last year. For wind the average output over the year was 30% of nameplate and for solar it was 20%. That is why they are over building so much of this infrastructure. Nameplate capacity factors of wind and solar are not equal to coal, gas and nuclear. Renewables are weather dependent and cannot possibly deliver nameplate capacity. Whereas coal, gas and nuclear are 'engineered' to supply nameplate capacity reliably 24/7 without the need for backup.
Even over building renewables will not match the capacity of coal and gas because the source of energy, wind and sunlight, is unreliable. No matter how much they build there will still be times when there is no wind or sun. How will the backup batteries be charged in those circumstances? NSW is depending heavily on the Snowy 2 pumped hydro scheme. This project was supposed to be completed in 2021 at a cost of 2 billion dollars. They have been plagued with problems and now it looks like it will be lucky to be completed by 2030 and the cost is estimated to have blown out to 20 billion dollars! We could have had several SMR's up and running over that time and had money left over, and without the need for new transmission lines. Added to that Australia is drought prone, always has been, and a severe drought would affect the function of pumped hydro if water supplies dropped. Even pumped hydro is weather dependent!
Yes, I agree, none of this has anything to do with saving the planet. And it isn't, it's accelerating it's demise.
Oh dear heavens, this is not good at all. No one is listening like you said, it is all about the money.
Global warming.......
The only disaster you can minimize by taxes and money.
those trees had a greater cooling effect than the combines effect of those solar panels. these solar panels provide a net loss in cooling during the summer and provide no heat in the winter. collect water samples date them and let them settle and multiply the volume of water you have so you can do quantitative analysis on how much erosion and sediment they contributed.
How is cutting down hundreds of thousands of acres of trees, shrubs, bushes and grass while killing literally everything that lived there from bees to deer environmentally friendly?
Using farmlands and woodlands for solar farms is insane! That land will Never be the same again. When the contract runs out in twenty years the company will just leave. Solar panels have a 20-25 year lifespan. By that time the government money received will go elsewhere. Now it’s up to the property owner(s) to clean up the mess!
Why would they leave at 20 to 25 years? The solar farm can operate in perpetuity because the panels can be replenished - even as the solar farm is still operating with newer and better panels. Older panels can be donated or re-used in less demanding applications and then subsequently recycled. Panels still retain some 85% of the original capacity after 20+ years.
Moreover, solar farms are the easiest power plants to construct. After some engineering work and grading, the bulk of the labor is _ground level_ and not much harder than putting up a commercial fence so it can be done by mostly unskilled labor. In fact, one of the complaints of solar farms is worker exploitation. But agricultural farms have long been known to exploit migrant workers too!
Agricultural farms will more than likely deteriorate the land much harder than a solar farm would. Agricultural farms are major sources of pesticide & fertilizer run off, animal waste runoff including methane. Constant churning of the soil erodes top soil decreasing micro biodiversity as well as releases CO₂ that have been captured from dead plants and foliage.
From The World Wildlife Fund:
"When agriculture fields replace natural vegetation, topsoil is exposed and can dry out. The diversity and quantity of microorganisms that help to keep the soil fertile can decrease, and nutrients may wash out. Soil can be blown away by the winds or washed away by rains."
From The National Family Farm Coalition:
"Due to intensive farming practices, nearly half of all productive topsoil has disappeared in the last 150 years. In the US, topsoil is eroding 10 times more rapidly than it can be replaced. Fertilizers, with voluminous untreated animal waste from factory farms, are polluting ground and surface water across the country."
Contrast this with the land solar farms occupy as they will enjoy a much more peaceful life for the *decades* that a solar farm is in operation. As stated before, solar farms can be replenished indefinitely with new and better solar panels so can actually exist indefinitely. Solar farms require practically zero material inputs and outputs. They exist in a practically "passive state" over the land with their sealed solid-state electronics. They can be dry brush cleaned _without water_ robotically or by human crews or a combination.
Even so, there is the concept of "agrivoltaics" where solar panels are _purposefully_ placed over farming land. This saves on water with shade and allows many plants to actually grow _more abundantly_ and with _more quality_ due to less heat stress from excessive sun. Plants get stressed out by too much sunlight and will pull more water from the soil in an effort cool itself off and ward off sun tissue damage which wastes water.
@@beyondfossil the people/companies building these farms aren’t about “green energy”. They’re getting paid by the government to build the farms. It’s all about profits! And the land owner isn’t going to replace them.
@@America-First2024 You're entitled to your opinion. But its best to back it up with some facts.
@@beyondfossil what? I can say the same thing to you! They were going to destroy farmland less than a mile from my house to “create green energy”. The company received so much negative publicity from the community and pulled the plug on the project. Old Jackson Solar:
“Originally, German and Romanian Solar Power Plant developers and investors created a shell company in Texas called GSE Eleven, LLC and planned to strip between 750-1000 acres of country farmland and install between 400,000 and 450,000 solar panels paid for with federal tax credits: your tax dollars. They want to sell the overpriced electricity to Oncor and cause your electricity prices to rise. The shell company was purchased by Pattern Development and renamed Old Jackson Solar so that they could hide under a shell company when this project fails. Pattern Development & Pattern Energy are Canadian owned.”
Facts!
Ive read solar farm leases and it requires the land be restored to the original state after the 50 yr lease is up unless the lease is renewed. Most people would be praying to renew the lease because if youre making 3x times what farming makes with zero risk and no use of herbicides and chemical fertilizers its a no brainer beyond no brainers! Lol
This is happening in Rhode Island
RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed have deforested 30 percent of the state
Just awful.
Getting rid of trees is getting rid of our oxygen.
I've passed solar farms while visiting family in California you can feel the heat coming off them. Any birds that fly over die before they get to the other side.
I always say that I care too much about the environment to be an environmentalist.
YES YES YES! Best comment I've seen on this!!!!
This is happening in the kalifornia deserts and mountains as well. They are destroying the environment. The other issue is after they disturb the surface we get more dust blowing than I have ever seen.
Like the dust bowl they planted hundreds of millions of trees for a windbreak. These solar people need to plant trees
More Green bullsh!t, these solar fields are being built all over the US and they keep getting bigger and bigger.
dwsert, and that dust covers the solar panels which stops them from working
the solar panels will act just like the trees providing excellent cover for lushious undergrowth and will protect the soil from mass evaporation...you guys are acting like spoiled butthurt bratts
@@az-yq3rkyes, and sure they will need a lot of water to take off all that dust. Everyday?
I wonder if anyone had ever looked at what might be leaching off all of that plastic and other materials that make up the solar panels and getting into the water.
Have you ever seen a solar panel? The only plastic is the insulation on the wires. The rest is all aluminum and glass. Feel better? Nevermind, trick question.
Yes, it creates toxic soil. Data is scrubbed off the internet, so it’s hard to find sources right now, but they detractors are growing on YT.
Toxic leaching of solar panels is not green. It’s a future Superfund crisis across America and the world.
far less then what leaches of the cows when they eat their ammonium fertilized grass I'm betting...
@@jawadad73 - hopefully
@@jawadad73 lol, grass fed beef eats natural grass. It’s your vegantarian grains & fruits that are soaked with chemicals and remains are found by your Dr during your bowel bag surgery. Lol.
“Clean renewable” the stupidity is stunning.
Reminder: a nuclear power plant would have been a lot less intrusive and provide clean energy 24/7.
Trees they removed probably would have done more for the planet then the panels. And one freak hail storm rip.
Yes and we get frequent hail storms around here.
@@culturedape279Hailstorms are problematic in regard to solar panels in regards to toxic leaching, especially the thin film cadmium/tellurium variety .
Trees are part of oxygen
As someone who lives in North East Texas, hail storms happen here almost monthly in the spring and summer months
What's crazy is the energy needed to manufacture those photovoltaic panels is greater than the lifetime energy output of those same panels. It's not a net gain... Not even close.
Totally false.
Same happened to us In Comanche County with wind turbines. Then the insanity really took off with the zealot Appraisal Office. That’s being nice about it. Very nice.
"Regardless of the source of the complaint?" Interesting that they felt compelled to say that...
When I see this kind of stuff happening I really despise the green energy movement. Seems like they’re saying that for environment, but they’re not best interests at heart.
If you did some actual honest math, you would find that after all the factors are considered, solar is even less environmentally friendly than oil is.
What factors are those? Burning a gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2. If you saw someone throw twenty pounds of garbage out of a car, you’d probably be upset about it. It’s still garbage, even if you can’t see it.
I suppose that is true if you suspend all logic.
@@erichendricks423 What logic am I suspending? You’re making a lot of generalizations, but not actually stating facts. I stated a simple, scientific fact. (Although as a matter of opinion, maybe you don’t care if people throw twenty pounds of garbage out of their car.)
Thanks for the laugh!
Honest math: We'd only need less than 1% of all of the world's land surface in solar panels to power the _entire_ electrical needs of the planet. Less than 1%!! This includes day/night cycle and weather. That doesn't even include wind which is just sun power anyways.
How is that possible? Because the sun provides a mind blowing 173,000 terawatts of power to the Earth non-stop. Or 1000 watts/m² peak ground and its always peak somewhere as the Earth spins like rotisserie chicken in the heat of the immense sun.
More math: The sun is colossally gigantically large at 99.9% the mass of the solar system. The remaining 0.1% is mostly Jupiter and Saturn. The Earth is like a grain of sand next to a 10-pin bowling ball. All the *combined* fossil on Earth compared to the Sun's power is literally like child's cup of water compared to an ocean. All of that sun power is clean abundant fusion power. The amount that reaches Earth is huge but still a tiny tiny amount of the Sun's entire power of 3.8×10²⁶ watts.
Have you seen the long list of oil spills that have occurred over the decades? The BP DeepWater Horizon spill in 2010 leaked 627,000 metric tons of crude for _months_ - the spill area was the size of Portugal.
Gasoline and diesel cars spew their toxic cancerous hydrocarbons (like benzene), NOₓ, SOₓ, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter right into our faces in the neighborhoods where we work, live and play. The nanosized magnetized particulate matter from unburnt fuel and metal shavings of the engine is being found in the prefrontal cortex of humans and animals - highly suspected for causing early onset dementia.
The massive petroleum industry needs to run non-stop 24×7×365 to explore, drill, refine and distribute these fuels. It needs an immense amount of energy and emissions - all of that needed before a single drop is burnt for fuel. This stuff does _not_ just magically appear at our gas stations ready to use. The amount of energy that the US uses to refine petroleum is more than enough to power all of its electric vehicles.
What will you do when the limited amount fossil fuels become increasingly hard to drill for? Over the next few decades as population ramps up and becomes more energy hungry it will bet even worse. We may never be able to extract all the fossil fuels from the Earth's crust. But the remaining amounts will end up so remote and so deep in the crust that they might as well be on Neptune. The cost to extract those remaining bottom-of-the-barrel amounts will cost a lot more than they could ever be sold for - a negative return on profit.
@@erichendricks423 No - once you look at the totality photovoltaic solar is a problem in many ways, mostly because it is massively overbuilt. Here in the North American west we have way too much PV solar already; the generation drops off rapidly just as demand peaks. Google "duck curve caiso" to see the report by the California Independent System Operator - the organization responsible for keeping the lights on in California. On a typical Spring day conventional generation has to ramp up 13,000 MW in three hours as the sun goes down and people go home.
Where does most of that generation come from? The only sources that can ramp up that fast are fossil, particularly natural gas. 50 years ago we were running out of natural gas; in 1976 I bought the last house in a new development that included natural gas service because the supply was running out. Then came fracking, and natural gas became plentiful again. That is where the energy surge required by solar comes from.
It is not a stretch to say photovoltaic solar generation requires fracking or storage, and storage is still in its infancy.
Solar farms are the most heinous act I’ve ever seen.
You know that when the solar panels get a light film of dust on them the efficiency drops considerably. And the disposal in 20 years will be horrible for the environment. Go green
Not true! I live in Arizona on solar! We get dust storms! I haven't washed my panels in over a year and no noticeable drop in efficiency.
@@lisam4503 Give it a few years.
@@garylester8621 Lol I've been living off grid for 8 years!
They do not. Home owners rarely need to hose down their panels and the dust hardly affects output. A good rain fall cleans them off well. Only unless its very heavy dust in like high urban India or possibly from a wildfire.
Even so, having a small crew dust off a solar farm's panels is a pittance in cost as its mostly unskilled labor that can be easily trained. Large scale solar farms now having drybrush automated robots dust off the panels.
This stuff is not hard to do. Compare against the colossal amount of work needed to bring petroleum from the depth of the crust and oceans -- those are truly huge amount of engineering that will be remembered for ages. The pitiful part is that all that engineering, brain power and trillions of dollars is all for dead-end technology that has wrecked havoc on the planet's biosphere.
@@garylester8621 now that your first claim has been disproved, you make another claim
Wow, I had no idea that what this article was about until now. Pretty scary on what could happen with other land next. Sorry you're going through that.
Are you? Are you now?
It's happening all over the country
This is not even to mention the HEAVY METALS runoff into the ground water/streams. Hopefully they are well sealed. But also, if they would have planted grass and done the change a little more gradually, then things would have been FAR better. Grass holds water and soil.
As an engineer. Imo, the The "green" energy stuff and move to electric vehicles is a straight-up lie.
Thank you so much for that comment. Please continue to spread your opinion.
@@judywooldridge5781This isn't an opinion you know what the forests and deserts have in common😂 we manufactured the part of removing them so earth has less and less shade stuff will dry up trees are part of the reason oxygen works so great you know what the funny part is trees can't be replaced in a matter of few years as to building a panel for ripping it down growing and building are completely different things hopefully once the majority of all earths surface shade is removed and crystals in solar panels that give off heat at ground level help heat the earth act like solor field don't put off heat waves just as dark color painted cars baking in sun all day😊
Go do the test yourself find a dark colored car blacks gonna burn your skin quickest rest your arm above it I bet you feel heat rising if not I bet its hot to touch now go inside a large solar field with large ammounts of black panels tell me how those ground level earth heaters that didn't exsist are working 24/7 on ground level dark always gives off best heat try breathing in a hot room its nice eventually once fill earth and remove every forest I can't wait🎉🎉 I'd say there working as exactly as they should🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
@@judywooldridge5781Go walk on the dark tar road bet that sun heats that was well❤❤❤ not an opinion panels are just a larger stretch to the massive earths climate future I guarantees you get a invisible radiant heat your road has heat rising up during normal day guess who made roads humans🎉🎉 green here we go🎉🎉😊
EXACTLY - It's a lie to keep us busy building and installing this crap while they finish off enslaving us. California's landfills are full of these ridiculous solar panels.
how much heat do the panels produce in the surrounding areas
ALOT, I live relatively close to one of the farms.
Very little, locally. The panels are elevated so the cooling is convective; the air is heated and can drive local rainfall but the land is actually cooler because of the shade.
The second law of thermodynamics is that no energy is created or lost. The panels convert 20% approximately of the sun’s energy
into electricity.
That means the solar panels REDUCE heat. In fact leafy greens that normally don’t tolerate Texas
summers do better under the partial shade of solar panels. There are legitimate concerns about environmental damage by these industrial projects but a lot of this is driven by fossil fuel propaganda. My Teacher’s Retirement account is probably supported by investments in fossil energy companies,so I have conflicting concerns,but we need to think twice before repeating what we hear on TV.
These companies who push for these solar farms are cutting down trees that clean the air. The irony
The problem isn't solar, the problem is where you put it and how you build it. This is just a company that is acting irresponsibly.
Majored media won't cover this, waste of money, that subsided by the taxpayer.
This is only the beginning of the issues and it will get worse.
I blame Donald Trump.
Dominion Virginia did the same to two legacy farm ownets in Louisa County. Those farmers also won their casrs, yet the damage was already done.
Same in Central GA...forests being cut down and replaced with solar. They use hundreds of goats to eat the grass and brush after the plant is up and running.
Disgraceful!!!! Shame on them!!!!! There's the correct way of doing this and it surely is not this way!
It's Texas, what else would you expect from a state that elects reptiles like Senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz and Governor Gregory Wayne Abbott to represent their values and morals? I think the state motto seems to be: "Profits before all else !"
I guess you forgot we live in a capitalist society so until we change that profits before people and the environment.
I liked Germany in 1933 better.
The National Socialists had strong animal rights and environmental laws as well as a national charter and 25 Point Program that protected the German people, the workers and their businesses.
But we destroyed them for a quick buck and to establish the Petro Dollar and we sided with communism in WWII so today all we are seeing is the dirty Marxist chickens coming home to roost
Enjoy the rotten communist eggs who have successfully infiltrated your schools, media and guv'ment.
This is why Vladimir Lenin called y'all useful idiots.
What you call "human rights" in America is nothing more than white genocide.
Could give a fuck what happens to this shit system. The people are what matters.
Unless we go back to living by the Constitution what's the point of supporting this war machine?
Hitler and Goebbels warned us that capitalism and communism were different sides of the same globalist coin.
Did we listen?
Nope
No correct way except Don't do it.
I don't understand why they can't put them up on higher poles so that wildlife and plants can still inhabit the land.
I have seen so many of these solar farms go up. Why can't they make these over parking lots where they can provide shade in the summer?
This is being done in some cases. The problem is that industrial interests are driven by quarterly profit goals instead of what might be more profitable with a little more forethought.
Wait...I heard "wetlands". Why isn't the EPA stopping the construction of the solar farm like they do for private houses? Why isn't the EPA concerned about the mass erosion of topsoil? I guess satisfying Engie (French corporation) and its board is more important than doing the right thing.
Wait until the panels start breaking down and the toxic materials start to contaminate everything. In the meantime, those panels will have to be washed regularly with who know what sort of detergents.
It is a waste of effort to try to reduce CO2 emmisions at this point. At 430ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, the CO2 energy absorption is near its ultimate maximum, meaning that further increases in concentration will contribute nearly nothing to further CO2-based greenhouse warming. Even the environmentalists admit this, now shifting their argument to “absorption band broadening” in the CO2 spectrum to continue flogging this dead horse. However, and 2nd year physics major (who has understood his lessons) can tell you that this increases at a rate of dT/T since absorption is determined by molecular vibration, so 1/2 kT per degree of freedom. That means, assuming an average atmospheric temperature of -72C (200 degrees Kelvin) every 1 degree Celsius global temperature increase contributes an extra 1/200 or 0.5% to CO2’s heating effect (and I ambeing generous, as the temperature near the earth surface, where most absorbing happens, is much higher, to the contribution is closer to 1/300). Since CO2 is responsible for only 8% of the greenhouse effect, the continued contribution of CO2 to global warming is only 0.5% x 0.08 or approximately 0.05% per degree Celsius.
So, for a measly and insignificant benefit of 0.05% per degree Celsius, the “environmentalists” want to destroy the fossil fuel industry, which will destroy fertilizer production, which will reduce food supply, which will cause starvation on a level not seen since Stalin and Mao did this. No surprise there, the people pushing this agenda are modern communists/socialists.
hey mate all this C02 BS is just that BS,there is no carbon problem as carbon isnt a pollutant its plant food
Bill Gates is already doing it. He built a carbon capture plant in Canada in 2015. It removes the equal of 40,000 trees a year in carbon. Now ask yourself why Gates hasn't built more of these when he says we have to act -- or else.....
Wow, I can't believe they don't make them mitigate before or as they are building these solar farms. Shouldn't that be part of their permit process? Farms actually seems like the wrong word, in this case! Just feels like everything is going to hell
Holding the environmental crowd accountable for their actions? That’s never going to happen.
Greed$$$. The solar energy company could have left a large wooded buffer zone and oak trees to prevent nasty water runoff. But that would have cost them a few bucks. MONEY IS EVERYTHING TO CORPORATE GIANTS.
Wouldn't farm owner be the wrong word to describe the owners of the wooded lot complaining? The guy with the farm tractor I can agree is a farmer!
@@lisam4503 believe you're missing the point. Land owner would be more accurate. Some people do farm trees.
@@dpirkl4560 Clearly that property wasn't a tree farm. There isn't a whole lot of money in selling lumber off land as a private landowner. Even off surprisingly large amounts of acreage.
this is insanity, and intentional. don't tell me nobody saw this coming.
For the state of Georgia it will take 6% of the land covered with solar panels in order to provide the energy needed. But if we go all EVs then double that. And if natural gas usage is curtailed then double it again. And there needs to be storage so you can still get energy at night. That has been predicted to take even more land.
Dig deeper you may find that your taxes are subsidized the company that are doing this
Oh they are I agree. Ours have went up. Even before the influx of people from commiefornia. Thats ok though. The jayhoos who rule the world from is-ra-hell will pay for ALL of their diabolical dr evil crap in the end. And boy oh boy they have ALOT to pay for. I would not want to be in their shoes when the time comes. People dont know it but they have been kicked out of over 130 countries over 1000 times throughout history. And yet these slick snake grimy bastards seem to ALWAYS end back up in control. Its got to be the work of their daddy the devil that keeps making this happen. My hope is people will wake up and see the truth. The REAL enemy. Where ALL this BS propagates from
And that really is ‘messed up’ . All fracked up and now it’s looking like wind and solar green new deal is in the lead for trashing the planet neck to neck with war.
Cut down the trees that take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen how is that environmentally sustainable?
Our green new world just plain disturbing, you don't see this on the news.
Clearing all those acres is green, green for the corporations that lobbied the politicians. Must do the exact opposite of what the government wants and the world will be better.
WOW..I had NO IDEA such things could happen!! Am So sad for for these people..Thank You for shedding light on these kind of happenings! From Smith County TX, Deborah
The problem is not that it is solar, the problem is that it is a corporation. It could be a corporate pig farm or a manufacturing facility. If we decentralized electric production so all of us produced electricity these "farms" would not exist. Every corporation regardless of their product needs to be monitored constantly. It is all about the money flow to politicians local, state and federal.
WOW! Let me count the ways (retired from a Fortune 100 electric company 5 years ago, worked as IT Field Services tech - substations, power plants, mountaintops....)
1) NERC. (North American, including all Canada) Stability and security concerns, backed by staggering fines. The NERC CIP (security) rules have all workers walking on eggshells, with five figure fines for an individual (not the company) for going back in a substation control house to retrieve a tool without checking in to the Physical Security Perimeter again.
2) FERC. (USA, market rules) I was a "conduit employee" - I served generation and distribution facilities. Mentioning anything as trivial as a problem with the grid to a power plant employee could have cost me several years' pay and potential federal prison time.
3) EPA (USA, all "footprint" issues.) I once replaced Power Line Carrier equipment at an old substation. I opened the chassis to see what I was throwing away. The transmitter had a sealed metal device with two solder tabs. I was a ham in the 1970s so I recognized it as an oil filled capacitor. In the 1960s and 70s "transformer oil" meant PCB. If I had thrown it in the electronic waste bin I would probably still be fighting federal charges.
It took me a month or two to unwind from the daily demands of the job (on call 24/7/365) and I have not fully unwound from the regulatory pressures - even though they are history.
Whoever decided to do that to fertile land should be strung up by his balls...
in Europe they want to take farmers land so they can build these monstrosities.
Lol, the farmers I know love the idea of making 3x the income. Only the people who dont get the offer to do the same are hugle jealous. Why would you want to farm at a yearly risk making 1/3 what you could make leasing out your land for solar. Its a no brainer! Only dumb people would not take a solarfarm lease for no risk and 3x more income!
Why they aren’t putting them on already existing structures is beyond me. That can’t possibly cause global warming and climate change, deforesting and all, nah
And all that glass n steel will cause an actual warming effect in that area.
Happens all over, at our farm the pits dug by the coal companies became waste dumps, municipal trash, dumped engine oil, fuel and oil filters, from the equipment, even cars and trucks got dumped. Then they just bulldozed the dirt over it. No type of flood control so now the ponds are contaminated, all the fish gone, and acres of now swamps. Nothing done by those in government as the were all bought off by the companies.
@SuperCold - That's a classic example of greed trumping nature. Very sad.
This just shows you . Nothing is perfect and EVERYTHING ( Including oil from the earth ) has it's place in our society. No one thing is the answer .
I've worked many solar field build projects. None of them went 24/7 operations. So when this guys said the noise of the pounding was full time; he is FOS!!!!!
I’m not Full of Sh&)t. Starting in January they began working all night long w spot lights. And the pounding of beams goes on 7 days a week. But since you’re so knowledgeable, why don’t you drive out here and prove me and all the other landowners, who watch across the fence, we are wrong.
This is next door to my home county of Hunt and it breaks my heart.
When this massive zone of solar panels are in operation, what are the effects atmospherically? Has any studies been done on what happens when the suns rays are essentially reflected back into the air
Makes total sense to remove trees to put up solar panels... after all who needs oxygen, however, i prefer it
Had the farmers did this they would be going to jail.
jail on environmentalist, that drive electric hungry EV also.
Farmers have a negative impact as they release pesticides into streams and rivers, thereby causing ecological contamination.
@@O-Ben Ok Karen
@@dammitbobby283 ironic. lol
@@O-Ben According to tests conducted by the National EPA, it has been revealed that almost all fish inhabiting rivers and streams across the United States are contaminated with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) at levels measured in parts per billion, surpassing even parts per trillion. Scientists assert that the contamination is so severe that consuming these fish is akin to ingesting a month's worth of water contaminated with hazardous PFAS, colloquially referred to as "forever chemicals."
How was this not addressed in the permitting process?
If it works the same in America as it does in Australia there are few regulations in the renewables industry, just lots of money to be made by a handful of people.
@@margaretarmstrong2445 It’s very different in the US. I own a small commercial and residential solar company. On one job, the PUC, Public Utilities Commission made me do a sound study to assure the neighbors (farm) that there wouldn’t be excessive noise generated by the solar field. The cows made more noise.
@@lowandslow3939The wind and solar projects here are huge and the cumulative effect on the environment, the wildlife and the communities is devastating. At just over halfway through the planning stages for our region alone they are up to 32 projects and that includes 800 wind turbines, so far.
One of these projects, which will be a few kilometres from our home, is wind/solar and will consist of more than a million solar panels, 69 wind turbines each at 7MW and standing at 280m high and 200m wide (918ft by 656ft), two BESS backup batteries, two substations and 11 kilometres of its own transmission lines to connect to the new state grid that doesn't exist yet. That one project will utilise 9,000 hectares of agricultural land. What is being proposed here is devastating and the developers are not transparent or forthcoming with information. They know it will be pretty much mandated. They don't care, it's all about the money to them.
I wish I was as happy and ignorant as that cute dog that was playing in the pond.
I never understood how destroying an entire forest and eco system environmentally friendly. Then again..i dont live in fantasy land.
solar panels have a limited life time. what is going to happen to all these panels when they reach their end life? just like the batteries in electric cars they can't be recycled. when you destroy the land you destroy life. sure, keep making more panels and such but who is going to make more land?
Did contract work at this site . Did not know it was contaminating the water. Couldn't have done anything to stop it
I’ve never worked on a job with major dirt work that didn’t have a SWPP in place.