My, my. Someone seems triggered here. I suppose when your name is Original Tree, that's understandable.We have the cleanest air and water in the world. 6,350 acres of Trees can clean more air and more CO2 than the toxic solar panels made from toxic chemicals.When you make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs. Solar power will help clean the air and slow global warming, which is a little more important than clear cutting trees, which you can always replant. Nothing we can do will reverse the damage of increased C02 however.Nothing like watching Leftist "Green" DemNazis destroy 100-200 year old trees and bulldoze 6,350 acres of Ecosystem for a Green Corporate Welfare Project.
Massive East Coast solar project generates fury from neighbors
The company sPower wants to build a 500-Megawatt solar project on the 6,350-acre site in western Spotsylvania County, with 3,500 acres being used to house 1.8 million solar panels. The land, currently owned by seven different landowners who plan to sell it to the company, has already been cleared for timber in anticipation of the project. sPower has said the project "will be safe, reliable, quiet and screened from public view."
But a vocal contingent of activist-residents are working to pressure county officials to deny special use permits for sPower, arguing it would have disastrous environmental, economic and cultural impacts on the area. They point out that the proposed project is nearly half the size of Manhattan.
“Once you let the bulldozers loose, it’s really tough to stop the environmental damage,” said Dave Hammond, a 64-year-old retired chemical engineer who lives in the nearby Fawn Lake community.
Hammond, an active project opponent, said the project would be an “an environmental disaster” for the area. Aside from the thousands of acres of trees that have been cleared, the Concerned Citizens of Spotsylvania group is also worried about water usage at the site, erosion, toxic materials, the potential for fires and the decommissioning of equipment if the project were discontinued. They're also concerned that the price of electricity for residents could rise because of additional burdens on the conventional grid
Opponents argue that the project would forever change the character of historic Spotsylvania County, where the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place. “The center of the Civil War is a mile and half from this thing,” said Kevin McCarthy, a 64-year-old retired music director who also lives in Fawn Lake.
They also argue that the county would lose money from lost tax revenue because the solar panel project would lower property values for homeowners -- an argument sPower contests. During a driving tour of the area, Sean Fogarty, a 63-year-old retiree with a background in engineering, pointed to a lot purchased by a couple who planned to build a lakeside home not far from the site. Fogarty said the owners have since decided to sell it because of the solar project.
The Spotsylvania project would be the largest east of the Rocky Mountains and opponents point out that other solar power plants of comparable size are found in sparsely populated areas like deserts. “You’re changing ecosystems forever, and you’re getting closer and closer to people,” Fogarty said of the decision to build in Virginia.
We have the cleanest air and water in the world. 6,350 acres of Trees can clean more air and more CO2 than the toxic solar panels made from toxic chemicals.
Geez you are one stupid political whore. Exactly how much Oxygen is that Solar Farm going to produce vs. 6,350 acres of Forest?
Answer: Zero Point Fucking Zero
How many birds, rabbits, fox, bears, bob cats, insects, butterflies, deer, squirrels, possums, chipmunks, field mice, snakes, frogs, etc etc etc habit did you just destroy with your GREEN HELL?
Global Warming is a Scam, and nothing but a vehicle for Global Wealth Redistribution and Installing Globalist Socialism. You then are a Tyrant and an Enemy of Nature, an Enemy of Humanity, and an Ally of Oppression.
Yes, but those trees cannot generate electricity, which our civilization has become totally reliant on.
Put a damn solar panel on your own damn house instead of commit Genocide against a Forest. Build a windmill on your own property instead of asking The Taxpayers to fund your Religion. Set up your own Water Wheel.
Live off the Grid and make a smaller footprint IF YOU want GREEN ENERGY. Quit Killing Nature in the Name of GREEN ENERGY and GREEN CORPORATE WELFARE.
Take responsibility for your own lazy uninspired ass.
Or Hell, I don't know, TRY NUCLEAR ENERGY some time.
Green energy will save the planet for all the trees you like. I'm used to seeing big clear cuts--it happens all the time here. Virginia was once a pretty much uninterrupted forest, and it was cut down to plant crops and build towns and roads and military bases and etc. etc. Stop CRYING. Genocide. LOL
Can't help noticing that his title screams about "losing" a war site (which is impossible) ---- and then out of that long-ass diatribe OP, exactly one and a half sentences even refer to it.
Whelp, guess Ronald Reagan was right when he told us most pollution comes from ----------- trees.