Proposed Solar Farm????????? Real or not?

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Revlac Guru Joined: 31/12/2016 Location: Australia Posts: 1285	Posted: 08:52am 14 Feb 2024       When they build over good farm land you will never get it back, it just expands. I went past the possible location today, its next to the big overhead powerlines and proposed inland rail..still cant confirm this.   There are quite a few large solar panel installations here already, some are offgrid and are close to a house or shed on grounds appropriate for it, the one down the road is a full tracking system and they do run sheep under the panels at times, most of the other large ones are ground mount, but you can't (shouldn't) run cattle near the panels, seen a few bent and broken panels, don't know how that happened and didn't ask, but I have seen a cow lift the back end of a car off the ground easily, must have been itchy between the horns or something. I'm all for solar but not at the expense of ruining places, there could be many other sites like the old open cut mines towards Ipswich. In this area we already had to fight off a large open cut coal mine, and several other large devastating projects, cant win them all. We have quite a bit of solar in this area 4340 according Here is a Quote from a solar company.   Quote   There are approximately 2,297 dwellings in the 4340 area, so that calculates out at 71 solar panel systems per 100 dwellings - the Australian average is 36. This probably Doesn't include the Offgrid installations either, I think we have done our bit.