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Home Front: Culture Wars
Cut trees for Solar Panels
2011-09-29
You just can't make this s#!t up !
RICHMOND (KCBS) -- A solar power project that involved clear-cutting groves of eucalyptus and oak trees to install solar panels has been halted near Richmond after county supervisors said they were embarrassed caught off guard on the tree removal.
Not mentioned in the article : It was a green building project
The Contra Costa County Board of Dolts Supervisors said it never signed off on a plan to remove the trees at Pt. Pinole Regional Shoreline Park to install solar panels for the county. By some estimates, nearly 100 eucalyptus trees and one dozen oak trees were chopped down.
But they block the sun!
"To say that we're flabbergasted is to say something kind of pissed off mild," said Beverly Lane, president of the East Bay Regional Park District Board.
Crap we look stupid..
She maintained the district had nothing to do with extensive tree removal.
Nope...not us...move along...nothing to see here..
Instead, the county signed a contract with Main Street Power to have solar panels installed on top of county buildings including the West County Detention Facility near the park.
SolarMan - the green crime fighter
"Had we known that these solar panels were going to be on the ground, near the entrance to a regional park, we would have definitely said no," said County Supervisor John Gioia.

He said the work has been halted at Pt. Pinole Regional Park.
So not only will they not put the panels where they just clear cut but taxpayers will foot the bill to plant new trees...also not mentioned in the article
Jonathon Postal, a spokesman for Colorado-based solar company, said that company officials plan to meet with county officials this week to bitch-slap them for screwing the pooch discuss the project.
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