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Wareham Planning Board wants legal opinion before vote on latest solar-array project Wicked Local WAREHAM – The Planning Board wants a legal opinion before voting on its site plan review of Borrego Solar Systems’ approximately 70-acre solar-array project at 140 Tihonet Road on land owned by A.D. Makepeace. The town has a right of purchase refusal on agricultural land that received state tax breaks that is being converted to a non-agricultural use under the state’s Chapter 61A program. The Planning Board had approved two site plan reviews for solar-array projects proposed by Borrego on Makepeace land late last year, including an approximately 60-acre parcel off 150 Tihonet Road in late last December and a 44-acre solar project off 27 Charge Pond Road last October. ....
A plan for the site. Photo courtesy: Beales and Thomas The Planning Board postponed a vote on the Borrego solar field proposed for A.D. Makepeace land on Tihonet Road following conversations about the company’s right to remove sand and gravel from the site. As discussed at the March 8 Planning Board meeting, the proposal calls for roughly two million cubic yards of sand and gravel to be removed from the land to prepare it for the installation of solar panels. While the applicant, represented by Stacy Minihane of Beales and Thomas, argued that removal was necessary, conservation advocates, including Meg Sheehan of the Community Land and Water Coalition, said that the solar field was a mere cover story for the strip mining of the land. ....
New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it? Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms. October 4, 2020 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine s North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan Related Share this article As the sole residents of unorganized territory T5 R7 deep within Maine’s North Woods, Duane Hanson and his wife, Sally Kwan, have watched the land around them known for its natural beauty, diverse wildlife and recreational fishing transformed by decades of development. ....
Chloe Shelford Feb 23, 2021 For cranberry farmer Brett Meredith, installing a solar field over his active cranberry bogs would enable him to continue farming the land. “It’s basically letting me stay in business and keep doing what I love,” Meredith said at the Feb. 22 Planning Board meeting. Meredith’s farm straddles the Wareham-Carver border. He is hoping to install solar fields over 28 acres of his bogs in Wareham and additional solar over his bogs in Carver. The plan is based on a state program that incentivizes farmers to harvest solar energy in addition to their crops and which requires the land to continue to be actively farmed. ....