Editor’s note: This article is by Andy Kirkaldy, of the Addison Independent, in which it was first published June 22, 2015.
FERRISBURGH — Facing a batch of new solar array proposals, the Ferrisburgh selectboard earlier this month sent out a letter of “non-support” to a proposed 480-kilowatt array on the new Dollar General property on Route 7, and board chairman Steve Gutowski said the board will oppose two other nearby arrays.
Those two proposals, both also near the intersection of Route 7 and Monkton Road, call for a 494-kW expansion of the Ferrisburgh Community Solar Project next to Vergennes Union High School and a 500-kW array just north of the American Legion clubhouse and east of Country Home Products’ headquarters.
Meanwhile, two smaller Ferrisburgh solar installations have been proposed, one on Greenbush Road and the other on Pea Ridge Road, although Gutowski said the selectboard is less concerned about those.
And neighbors of the recently installed Basin Harbor Club 150-kW array have appealed it to the Public Service Board, which oversees solar array installations, and to the Vermont Supreme Court. According to neighbors, the Supreme Court was set to hear oral arguments on the case at 1 p.m. on Monday.
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