Sirs:
Upon reading several recent articles concerning HR and HS Bills that would permit the State Corporate Commission to mandate solar farms, I feel compelled to request you to vote NO for the following bills:
House Bill 106
House Bill HB-636
As residents of a rural county in which a large population of the homes uses well water, it is imperative that you protect those major resources that solar farms will detrimentally impact. Solar farm environmental studies that I've read show innumerable instances of failure of these facilities to cause contamination of water sheds, groundwater, and major aquifers. The facilities have been fined, but with little impact on containing such failure to protect the resources.
Many of the solar developers target economically challenged, low income residents with the dream of instant wealth and is equal to that of a snake oil salesman. The dream is often sold with offers of contracts to rent hundreds of acres of land at phenomenal rates, offering County governments low-ball surety bonds, and very thinly veiled information of mitigation of land after decommissions. When the facility is decommissioned, the landowner will be left with footing the bill to mitigate the damage to the land, a state requirement. The end result is decimation of agricultural and forestry lands that can never be restored.
Your time is valuable, as is the very nature and essence of our rural communities.
We respectfully ask that you vote NO to the bills under your authority.
Jerry K. and Sandra L. Radford
121 Mulberry Drive
Palmyra, VA 22963
Sirs: Upon reading several recent articles concerning HR and HS Bills that would permit the State Corporate Commission to mandate solar farms, I feel compelled to request you to vote NO for the following bills: House Bill 106 House Bill HB-636 As residents of a rural county in which a large population of the homes uses well water, it is imperative that you protect those major resources that solar farms will detrimentally impact. Solar farm environmental studies that I've read show innumerable instances of failure of these facilities to cause contamination of water sheds, groundwater, and major aquifers. The facilities have been fined, but with little impact on containing such failure to protect the resources. Many of the solar developers target economically challenged, low income residents with the dream of instant wealth and is equal to that of a snake oil salesman. The dream is often sold with offers of contracts to rent hundreds of acres of land at phenomenal rates, offering County governments low-ball surety bonds, and very thinly veiled information of mitigation of land after decommissions. When the facility is decommissioned, the landowner will be left with footing the bill to mitigate the damage to the land, a state requirement. The end result is decimation of agricultural and forestry lands that can never be restored. Your time is valuable, as is the very nature and essence of our rural communities. We respectfully ask that you vote NO to the bills under your authority. Jerry K. and Sandra L. Radford 121 Mulberry Drive Palmyra, VA 22963