'You'd be a NIMBY too': Solar farm shelved after years of community opposition

'You'd be a NIMBY too': Solar farm shelved after years of community opposition

Yass residents celebrate as a controversial solar farm is shelved amid fire safety concerns and misinformation issues.

'Selfish' residents rejoice at Yass solar farm victory

Yass Solar Action Group secretary Kylie Davies and Nationals MP Michael McCormack look out over the proposed solar farm site. Photo: Facebook. ANU solar power pioneer Andrew Blakers has lambasted Yass residents who successfully fought off a massive solar farm proposal as selfish, but their spokesperson says it was just in the wrong place. French company ENGIE has pulled the plug on the 328-hectare project about 2.5 km south-west of the Yass town…

Bill McKibben says 'liberals spreading misinformation' on solar project south of Santa Fe - Finnoexpert

Bill McKibben, a noted environmentalist known for penning a pioneering book on climate change in the 1980s, has weighed in on the white-hot debate over Rancho Viejo Solar, the large renewable energy and battery storage development proposed south of Santa Fe. McKibben, who lives in Vermont but visited the City Different last fall, had an opinion piece published Sunday in The Santa Fe New Mexican outlining his support for the project and sounding …

Council’s anti-slavery policy used to fight solar farm

Locals opposed to a solar panel project on the Hampshire-Berkshire border are attempting to stop it by arguing it could breach anti-slavery commitments.