Solar grazing duo, Jess Gray and Marcus Gray, CWB®, have received a nomination for “Ranchers of the Year” from the North American Agrivoltaics Awards! We are honored to have Jess and Marcus lead the way in our agrivoltaics endeavors on our Crystal Hill facility and on other projects across Virginia. Outside of on-site management, the Gray’s have worked tremendously hard to promote solar grazing both in Virginia and across the Mid-Atlantic region. Jess is a 2023 Nuffield International Farming Scholar, a 2024 Virginia Rural leader, and a board member for The American Solar Grazing Association. Marcus is a Certified Wildlife Biologist (CWB) with expertise in natural resources stewardship. Their push for creating a future in #Agrivoltaics is palpable, and we are thrilled to work with Gray’s LAMBscaping, LLC to advance the cause across our industry. Join us and cast a vote for the Gray's!
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Beyond excited, ecstatic, to work with Urban Grid on rolling out #agrivoltaics at scale in an intentional way. The stability is timely and needed in #solargrazing to avoid wide swings in animal stocking numbers and related availability of land to keep them on, plus the ability to attract/retain appropriate staffing levels. Growing out capacity in an intelligent way like this will go a long way to meeting the industry need to properly manage the ecology of solar properties. #solarrancher
Solar grazing duo, Jess Gray and Marcus Gray, CWB®, have received a nomination for “Ranchers of the Year” from the North American Agrivoltaics Awards! We are honored to have Jess and Marcus lead the way in our agrivoltaics endeavors on our Crystal Hill facility and on other projects across Virginia. Outside of on-site management, the Gray’s have worked tremendously hard to promote solar grazing both in Virginia and across the Mid-Atlantic region. Jess is a 2023 Nuffield International Farming Scholar, a 2024 Virginia Rural leader, and a board member for The American Solar Grazing Association. Marcus is a Certified Wildlife Biologist (CWB) with expertise in natural resources stewardship. Their push for creating a future in #Agrivoltaics is palpable, and we are thrilled to work with Gray’s LAMBscaping, LLC to advance the cause across our industry. Join us and cast a vote for the Gray's!
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Analysing the Effect of Solar Panels on Wildlife! ⚡️🦋 Solar panels are not only environmentally friendly, but they are also friendly to wildlife and nature. Check out our most recent article about the impact of solar energy on wildlife! 👇 #wildlifeconservation #solarpanelsystem #renewableenergy #wildlifelovers
Analysing the Effect of Solar Panels on Wildlife
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EPRI's Endangered and At-Risk Species program just published a Technical Brief called "Exploring Opportunities for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Information for Planning and Consultation (IPaC) Tool to Streamline Consultation of Right-of-Way Vegetation Management Projects" (https://lnkd.in/eDEecexe). It assesses the potential of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife’s (FWS’s) Information for Planning and Consultation (IPaC) platform for streamlined Section 7 Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation for routine electric power vegetation management activities along rights-of-ways (ROWs) that may impact the Northern long-eared bat (NLEB), Indiana bat (IBAT) and other listed and at-risk bats. This brief summarizes the results obtained for each step above and uses the findings to inform insights and recommendations for future areas of focus.
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This is a much needed paper that tackles the difficulties in assessing the effects of wind farm developments on SPA populations of red kite. Well done to all involved. https://lnkd.in/edHmNSaA
Modelling population-level impacts of wind farm collision risk on Welsh Red Kites - BSG Ecology
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In CDN our oil & gas industry was forced to reinvent itself because of 200 ducks in the oilsands, but have we really considered the environmental impacts of wind/solar in CDN before we build them????
Today in Energy: Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception My new piece at The Telegraph details why efforts at streamlining permitting processes in Europe and the US are destined to be difficult and messy, and could stand at odds with the maintenance of a free society that protects the rights of citizens, animals and the environment. Here's an excerpt: But advocates for reform are certain to find the issue to be an intractable one with no simple or easy solutions available. The reasons why are obvious to anyone who is familiar with how and why these Byzantine and frustrating permitting processes exist in the first place. In the US, the reality is that all or most permitting processes and delays derive from laws designed to protect the environment, animal rights, human rights, and both public and private safety. The regulatory structures that govern the permitting processes derive from major statutes such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and on and on. Other processes are there to protect the property rights of private citizens. Permits that must be obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exist to protect the safety and rights of workers and the public. I’ve written several articles over the last year about all the dead whale carcasses that have been washing up on the Northeastern Atlantic coast of the US adjacent to the development of the big offshore wind projects currently being promoted and subsidized by the Biden administration. It turns out those projects are being sited in well-known migration corridors for an array of whale and other marine mammal species, several of which are listed as endangered species. The protection of such species is the reason Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act to begin with. Attempts to enact major reforms to permitting processes in democracies that strive to protect the environment and human and animal rights are going to be messy and difficult. Manchin and others seeking to smooth the path for the enormous new infrastructure required by the net-zero project are not just clearing away bureaucracy: they are seeking to change a lot of settled law which was enacted by elected legislatures because the people wanted it. There is much, much more at the link below. Enjoy. #energy #permitting #permittingreform #JoeManchin #JohnHickenlooper #BillCassidy #endangeredspecies #environment https://lnkd.in/ga2wT5S2
Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception
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Citizens of the Kingdom of God observe the political spirit of the age. The Greens in Australia grew out of the fight to stop a dam in Tasmanian wilderness- they may come of age in the fight to stop high tech wind turbines in Queensland wilderness. From a technical perspective windturbines have very little density of power- to rely on it you need to reduce demand, just as those who live off grid do. From an architectural view point, one wind turbine is perhaps architecturally interesting with an exciting backdrop. The first one I ever saw I photographed, but now I could not be bothered due to their boring ubiquity. Unlike windmills of the past or even light houses, where no two were the same, the designs are banal. Why are they always white? If we see them all over a landscape - it is banality multiplied. The aesthetics of the current designs, in their ever larger sizes of blade, in multiplicity are troubling. I do see the point of the presenter here: there is a lot of earthworks - I do see possible upside - with all those roads and access they won't ever have a bushfire problem, but that is itself an interesting issue as bushfires are needed to regenerate, in the natural order. When the windfarm is there then it will be managed industrial land and no longer wilderness.#moahcreekwindfarm
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(video archive) A Rough Wind: The Impact of Industrial Windmill Facilities on Birds and Other Wildlife: Allegheny Plateau Audubon Society: Impact of industrial windmill facilities on birds and other wildlife #windpower #windenergy
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Today in Energy: Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception My new piece at The Telegraph details why efforts at streamlining permitting processes in Europe and the US are destined to be difficult and messy, and could stand at odds with the maintenance of a free society that protects the rights of citizens, animals and the environment. Here's an excerpt: But advocates for reform are certain to find the issue to be an intractable one with no simple or easy solutions available. The reasons why are obvious to anyone who is familiar with how and why these Byzantine and frustrating permitting processes exist in the first place. In the US, the reality is that all or most permitting processes and delays derive from laws designed to protect the environment, animal rights, human rights, and both public and private safety. The regulatory structures that govern the permitting processes derive from major statutes such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and on and on. Other processes are there to protect the property rights of private citizens. Permits that must be obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exist to protect the safety and rights of workers and the public. I’ve written several articles over the last year about all the dead whale carcasses that have been washing up on the Northeastern Atlantic coast of the US adjacent to the development of the big offshore wind projects currently being promoted and subsidized by the Biden administration. It turns out those projects are being sited in well-known migration corridors for an array of whale and other marine mammal species, several of which are listed as endangered species. The protection of such species is the reason Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act to begin with. Attempts to enact major reforms to permitting processes in democracies that strive to protect the environment and human and animal rights are going to be messy and difficult. Manchin and others seeking to smooth the path for the enormous new infrastructure required by the net-zero project are not just clearing away bureaucracy: they are seeking to change a lot of settled law which was enacted by elected legislatures because the people wanted it. There is much, much more at the link below. Enjoy. #energy #permitting #permittingreform #JoeManchin #JohnHickenlooper #BillCassidy #endangeredspecies #environment https://lnkd.in/ga2wT5S2
Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception
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