This website is here to educate the public
about the development of utility-scale solar plants
through the eyes of an abutter.
"The saddest moment in this entire sorry affair was a Sunday morning a few weeks ago. I was walking in the woods behind my neighbor’s house when I heard a loud clanging noise There was no one onsite, so I walked toward the noise in time to see a deer slamming into the chain link fence trying to get through/over the fence. It finally gave up and headed back through the woods."
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Letter:To the Hopkinton Town Council
Dear Council members,
As an abutter to Southern Sky Renewable Energy’s 21.5 MW project on Lippitt Ave. Cranston, I have endured a 13 month construction project that enters its 14th month this week. In all likelihood, we are looking at 18 months of construction. SSRE told the Planning Commission that the project would take 8-10 months. [Commission minutes, 2017 January 3] They spent 6 months on site preparation and that was “only” 67 acres not 175.
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The heavy construction traffic during that period was constant: logging trucks, large flatbeds hauling heavy construction equipment fit for a mall construction project, stump grinders and tree shredders, rock crushers, and gravel trucks by the hundreds. I counted 13 in one hour on a Friday afternoon. They ran five-six days a week for months....READ MORE....
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