Thursday, 14 May 2026

Legalise energy

If someone owns some land with minor brush on it and wants to clear that brush, and clearing isn't going to create erosion into streams that bother neighbours or anything like that, they should be able to do it. It's their land. If someone else wants them to preserve the brush, the someone else should purchase an easement. 

If someone owns some land and wants to put solar panels on it, they should be able to do it. It's their land. If someone else wants them to not put in solar panels, that someone else should purchase an easement.

Read this, and remember the Golgafrinchans.

The potential size of a proposed solar farm in North Canterbury has been reduced due to compliance issues on the land.

Far North Solar Farm Ltd has confirmed it has removed a section of land from its resource consent application to build a 181ha solar farm near Waipara, north of Amberley, after the landowner removed native vegetation from the site.

The large solar farm project has drawn criticism from some locals who say it would have adverse impacts on the environment and to property values, pose risk to passing motorists from glare from the panels and question how the solar panels would stand up to strong winds.

FWIW, the group trying to stop the solar farm puts the start-date on the project as April 2023

More than three years ago. 

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