New solar project proposed in Posey Co.
New solar project proposed in Posey Co. By 14 News Staff | March 4, 2021 at 9:10 PM CST - Updated March 4 at 9:10 PM
POSEY CO., Ind. (WFIE) - Leaders for a newly proposed solar project in Posey County released its preliminary site plan on Thursday.
Project leaders from Tenaska say the plan is expected to create upwards of 250 jobs and pay more than $35 million over its lifetime.
An early look at where the project will land along Highway 62, extending west as far as McKennies Road.
Officials say the project had to be altered to make sure the boundaries fell at least 100 feet from neighboring property lines, as well as provide 250 feet between solar panels and non-participating residences.
this last hour here in bridge city of just first responders going back and forth, bringing out people. we saw at least two people being cared for medically and then taken off into ambulances. they ve left behind some life rafts here that they dropped off earlier in the day on a little bit of higher ground. that is just in case they had a number of life rafts here, they had some extras, so they just kind of deposited this at a staging area. so i m pointing out the road that my camera crew is standing on right in front of me. so to be clear, i am continually referencing that road that only has a little bit of water on it, that vehicles are able to move on. now, you can argue, i didn t need to be standing in waist-deep water. i could have stood on the road with the camera crew, but again, i didn t want to be roaming around on the highway, interfering rescue vehicles in any way. i also wanted to show people how deep the water was and how dangerous it is for anyone driving, as anybody w
you can see, the water level was about a foot and a half higher earlier today. so it is definitely going down here, but it has a long way to go before anyone is able to return to their homes and there s no telling how long power is going to be out. okay, so, here s another clip, in which i describe that i am standing by a road that is on higher ground and is being used for evacuations. the highway 62, which is the road that we re on right now, there s a thin slip of it, which just has a couple of inches of water. and that s what these rescue vehicles have been going on. we haven t wanted to clog up that road, so that s why we ve been off on the side of the road. and this is where you really get a sense of the depth of the water. if you walk out there, it just goes down much deeper. we d be, you know, up to our necks. very low-lying area. and what happens is, bridge city lies between two rivers. it now looks like a lake, you know, post-ike. so you go over a bridge, again, just dow
was used to be on my knees, which i assume is some sort of anti-gay reference, very classy. anyway, i ve covered hurricanes for about 14 years and it really does make me sad to think that anyone would believe that tii would try to fake something or over lly dramatize a disaster. i debated whether i should even respond to the president s son. i know he believes himself to be an outdoorsman and likes to go to africa and kill animals, but i don t know if he s ever been to a flood. i didn t see him down in north carolina in the last few days, but i m sure he was doing something important besides just tweeting lies. anyway, in the interest of honesty and transparency, here s what these pictures actually show. i don t know who took them or what their motivation was, here s what was actually happen. number one, this was not hurricane florence. this was taken ten years ago during hurricane ike. on september 13th, 2008, i did a two-hour broadcast from bridge city, texas, by highway 62 in orange
dirt away all day long. the water is coming down. we got here five hours ago, it was going over the roadway in a big waterfall. it looked like niagara falls over there. it has come down. dirt is still getting washed away at this point. they have no idea when they ll be able to get it fixed. this is a main artery, highway 62, from beaker all the way into oklahoma city. a lot of traffic will go through here on a monday. right now there s no traffic whatsoev whatsoever. they don t know when this roadway may be useable again. they may open up a couple of lanes on the side away from the sinkhole to get traffic flowing. right now this is a big bottleneck. let s talk about other concerns, threats facing people there. what s the biggest concern for the people of oklahoma? is it the threat of more bad weather, flooding? that they don t have water, electricity or all of the above? kind of all of the above. that was just scattered around