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Greg Scott, Livermore
Since it is so convenient for the Tri-Valley Conservancy to sign up to monitor the proposed Aramis Solar Project in the North Livermore Valley even before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors informed approval of the project, I have a modest proposal: Tri-Valley Conservancy needs to monitor the metagenomics of the soil bacteria of the site.
Metagenomics, also called environmental genomics, studies the genetic material directly from the field. Soil bacteria are a critical and seminal basis of the food web, and by monitoring the soil bacteria, Tri-Valley Conservancy would get a good idea of the health of, and effects to, the Aramis Solar Project local ecosystem. These will have broad ramifications for the overall ecosystem of the entire North Livermore Valley.
Alan Marling, Livermore
Alameda County Supervisors unanimously approved the Aramis Solar Project last month, based on the support of local unions, the Sunrise Movement, and the Sierra Club.
The solar farm may be swamped in courts for years due to litigation from Save North Livermore Valley, backed by Friends of the Vineyard and Open Space and Friends of Livermore. I have some thoughts on these obstructionists.
They say they want clean energy from solar but not enough to build it in an empty field. They say they like empty fields but donât seem to care if they and the rest of California burn in the next fire season.
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Greg Scott, Livermore The board of supervisors recently took an informed and bold step to enhance agriculture and open space resource in North Livermore with their approval of the Intersect Power Aramis Agrivoltaics Project.
Now the Aramis Solar Project in North Livermore is the Aramis Agrivoltaics Project by declaration of Dr. Larry Gosselin ( North Livermore Moving Forward , The Independent, March 18)?
Let s be informed about Dr. Gosselin s agro-eco greenwash propaganda. Building the Aramis Solar Project is going to involve heavy equipment and pile drivers which compact the soil. Soil is a carbon sink. Compacted soil results in lower organic material (OM) and water holding capacity in the soil because of reduced pore space. This will be measurable. Reduced OM means more carbon into the atmosphere, since OM is 42% to 58% Soil Organic Carbon. This is not what you desire for any type of agriculture or biodiversity aspects, an example being insect decline, like that of 1,600