re: Opposition to Solar Project in Iberville Parish

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they only want it going on Ag land. Something is fricky

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They want agland because they can, in most cases, avoid Clean Water Act permitting for one. That alone can drag a project out for several additional months and add 100s of thousands in mitigation costs depending on how many acres they are impacting.

It doesn't hurt that that land is also clean and ready to put panels on versus forested acres that require clearing and would certainly require additional permitting.

Interestingly enough, though, none of the properties I see proposed for solar "farms" are ever acres that were always pasture and never cropped.

Pasture isn't exempt from any kind of permitting. Prior Converted Cropland is.