Strata Solar Stopped

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Original Post Made By: Facebook User Citizens for Responsible Solar, in the Facebook Group: Stop Solar Farms
November 22, 2020

Maroon Solar has WITHDRAWN its application! These solar projects CAN be defeated.

Strata Solar on Friday afternoon pulled its application to build a utility scale power plant in Culpeper County, a week after the planning commission scrutinized, then denied, the request and neighbors intensely opposed it.

Click the following link to read the entire article: https://starexponent.com/business/strat ... zTLFTr910g

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Beth Chaplin Snider
That is awesome!!

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David Herring
That’s great to hear. Keep fighting the fight to protect valuable agricultural land. We are fighting Next Era/Gulf power in the panhandle of Florida trying to put in 868 acres solar plant with 90 percent of the land is USDA prime agricultural land with the remaining land farm land of importance or water.

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Julie Aikens Langan
David Herring
You mean right where hurricanes go? Holy moly! I’m questioning their intelligence!

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David Herman
We all need to congratulate and celebrate the Citizens for Responsible Solar and Susan Ralston for all of the time and hard work that resulted in a win for the local residents, at least for now.

This win along with every win, should give hope to many other groups that are working together all across this planet, (at least in the countries that are still a democracy), to fight and protect their properties from these invaders.

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Renee Marie
They already had a solar ordinance... so that is probably what protected them.

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Citizens for Responsible Solar
Renee Marie
We don't have an ordinance yet, but we're going to work on one

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Renee Marie
Citizens for Responsible Solar
it’s says the current solar ordinance said solar is limited to 300 acres. I’m just curious because ours has no regard to solar accept allowing it on woodland ... go figure

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Citizens for Responsible Solar
We have a "policy" not an ordinance, which doesn't have any teeth. It is a guideline that the Board can choose to disregard. We argued: why have a policy if you're going to ignore it? It has taken a long time, almost 2 years, for the Planning Commission and the Board to understand that industrial-scale solar isn't agriculture.

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Renee Marie
Citizens for Responsible Solar
ahh okay. I’m so confused by our situation. Our zoning committee says we have to allow for it. They have to amend the ordinance to allow solar on ag land. And they’re so afraid to be ‘overly restrictive’
We have 5000 acres under lease in our county, the smallest county in the commonwealth of PA.

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Citizens for Responsible Solar
You can fight it! PM me if you want to discuss

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Renee Marie
Citizens for Responsible Solar
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