IN response to Peter Hennessy’s letter about the proposed solar farm at Brewongle (“It’s worth having a closer look at this solar farm”, October 18), the obvious stares us in the face.
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Both at the recent meeting and in the media, rather strange claims keep being made by a small minority of people which are patently false.
Photon never said that solar panels look like trees. They said that birds didn’t have any issues with solar panels.
Despite Mr Hennessy’s protracted interventions at the community meeting, Photon consistently stated that contractors would be sourced locally. Most people in the room expressed frustration with the petty line of questioning and accusations of lying levelled at Photon.
For the record, Photon stated local labour would be sourced, and that if there was insufficient labour in the immediate area they might have to look to Orange or Lithgow.
And to suggest that solar panels are a health hazard to sheep. Not sure where to begin with that!
While the “Brewongle residents” Mr Hennessy claims to represent (many of whom are ironically not from Brewongle!) seem to be treating this matter like a school reunion of the 1970s pulp mill protest, the vast majority of us can see what a progressive and exciting opportunity this is.
I remember when Brewongle used to be of such population that it had a school, post office, railway station and at least one pub.
I presume that Mr Hennessy and his small group would be happy for the village to return to its former glory through subdivision and development rather than support a passive and innocuous solar farm.
Jim Onions, Bathurst