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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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Working in the current (previous) environment was already pretty challenging to get a Wind/Solar development off the ground. Landowners have huge amounts of power, they can basically say no and thats it, there's no right of expropriation for these things. 'More voice in the development' = no more development, in my experience. If you work in the AB rural infrastructure consultation game, everyone has an issue with everything.
I would say about 80% of the projects I've worked on over 17 years were cancelled due to difficult regulatory/stakeholder environment, including huge hundred-million dollar transmission projects.