re: Opposition to Solar Project in Iberville Parish

The area is still reeling from that time some fool plowed under his crop to build a baseball field.

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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.

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There's a big solar farm near Franklinton that I drove past recently. It powers this gravity battery which makes other fuels, like hydrogen. No one there seems to care or even know about it.

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You have no idea what you're talking about. That was farmland, some even owned by Louisiana that was once an Ag project full of cows. It's an eyesore and WP residents have been raising hell about it.

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Books have been written romanticizing that area and agriculture.

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Methopotamia

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I would imagine jurisdiction by jurisdiction would vary greatly on needs or permitting.

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At the local level? Sure.

But unless you have land that is completely non-wetland/non-jurisdictional, you may not need any other permits but would still have to deal with the Corps, or the project may not happen (unless a company willfully violates the CWA).

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Land purchases for utility solar development are so rare I’ve never heard of one. It’s always basic land leases and some with ppa profit shares but those are disappearing because of an abundance of available land.

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It's 4 years in and the place looks abandoned. I haven't seen a worker out there in a very long time.

I keep watching the tax rolls and waiting for it to be available.

The whole thing mad zero sense then and zero sense now.

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Who’s the developer?

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That would disclose a little too much to the autists.

Also if younwere a regular patron of northgate tavern between 2003 and 2009 we very likely know each other

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Are we running out of farmland??

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Very much running out of fertile topsoil.