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Originally Posted by flamesfever
My understanding was that the "Pause" was made with the following purposes in mind:
1. To further decide what lands were open for solar panel development, in order to preserve the areas best suited for agriculture due to a higher grade of soil.
2. To arrange for a system to hold back funds for eventual removal and recycling of the solar panels.
3. To give the people directly affected more of a voice in the development.
4 So that the development would go forward in a more orderly manner.
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That was some of the supposed reasoning but as time goes on it seems much more driven by ideology.
The third one is interesting because unlike oil and gas wells where the landowners can’t stop a well on their land if they don’t own the mineral rights, nobody can force you to lease your land for solar development. So the landowner already has more rights than oil and gas.
For the second, that should be a concern, but given the massive unfunded pipeline facility abandonment liability in this province and the fact there was never a pause to deal with that, I lean once again towards ideology.
I still firmly believe every one of the supposed issues have had plenty of time to be resolved by the same party that’s in power today, and that a moratorium was in no way needed to deal with them.