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Beyond excited, ecstatic, to work with Urban Grid on rolling out #agrivoltaics at scale in an intentional way. The stability is timely and needed in #solargrazing to avoid wide swings in animal stocking numbers and related availability of land to keep them on, plus the ability to attract/retain appropriate staffing levels. Growing out capacity in an intelligent way like this will go a long way to meeting the industry need to properly manage the ecology of solar properties. #solarrancher

Analysing the Effect of Solar Panels on Wildlife! ⚡️🦋 Solar panels are not only environmentally friendly, but they are also friendly to wildlife and nature. Check out our most recent article about the impact of solar energy on wildlife! 👇 #wildlifeconservation #solarpanelsystem #renewableenergy #wildlifelovers

This is a much needed paper that tackles the difficulties in assessing the effects of wind farm developments on SPA populations of red kite. Well done to all involved. https://lnkd.in/edHmNSaA

Citizens of the Kingdom of God observe the political spirit of the age. The Greens in Australia grew out of the fight to stop a dam in Tasmanian wilderness- they may come of age in the fight to stop high tech wind turbines in Queensland wilderness. From a technical perspective windturbines have very little density of power- to rely on it you need to reduce demand, just as those who live off grid do. From an architectural view point, one wind turbine is perhaps architecturally interesting with an exciting backdrop. The first one I ever saw I photographed, but now I could not be bothered due to their boring ubiquity. Unlike windmills of the past or even light houses, where no two were the same, the designs are banal. Why are they always white? If we see them all over a landscape - it is banality multiplied. The aesthetics of the current designs, in their ever larger sizes of blade, in multiplicity are troubling. I do see the point of the presenter here: there is a lot of earthworks - I do see possible upside - with all those roads and access they won't ever have a bushfire problem, but that is itself an interesting issue as bushfires are needed to regenerate, in the natural order. When the windfarm is there then it will be managed industrial land and no longer wilderness.#moahcreekwindfarm

The Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, or ACKRat, have asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to find that the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Marine Fisheries Service acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in concluding that the Vineyard Wind project could proceed in compliance with Federal laws. There is as much chance that ACKRat will prevail in this appeal as there is that the Boston Red Sox will win the 2023 World Series. More on this latest NIMBY action and what happens next here. #NIMBY #ClimateEmergency #RenewableEnergy #ChevronDeference

Very excited to be able to share some of the work we have been doing in collaboration with Natural Power, EDF Renewables UK & Ireland and the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership to compare fish data gathered by traditional trawl surveys and environmental DNA (eDNA). Without giving away too many spoilers here are some exciting takeaways from the project: 🐟 eDNA consistently detected a greater number of species than its trawling counterparts, including endangered species such as European eel. 🐟 As a non-invasive tool, eDNA allowed for surveying within the turbine array which would have otherwise not been possible. 🐟 eDNA provided a quicker, more affordable and scalable solution for gathering robust environmental insights. If rolled out more widely it has the ability to bring down OWF developmental costs and re-shape the way we monitor and manage offshore environments. Get in touch if you would like to find out more about the project or our approach to environmental monitoring! NatureMetrics Samuel Stanton Edward Wort Nathan Geraldi Krystle Robson Fraser Morgan Nicole Yeomans Ben Goymer Derek Michelson #biodiversity #marinenetgain #environmentalmonitoring #offshorewind #edna #metrics #monitoringsolutions

Today in Energy: Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception My new piece at The Telegraph details why efforts at streamlining permitting processes in Europe and the US are destined to be difficult and messy, and could stand at odds with the maintenance of a free society that protects the rights of citizens, animals and the environment. Here's an excerpt: But advocates for reform are certain to find the issue to be an intractable one with no simple or easy solutions available. The reasons why are obvious to anyone who is familiar with how and why these Byzantine and frustrating permitting processes exist in the first place. In the US, the reality is that all or most permitting processes and delays derive from laws designed to protect the environment, animal rights, human rights, and both public and private safety. The regulatory structures that govern the permitting processes derive from major statutes such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and on and on. Other processes are there to protect the property rights of private citizens. Permits that must be obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exist to protect the safety and rights of workers and the public. I’ve written several articles over the last year about all the dead whale carcasses that have been washing up on the Northeastern Atlantic coast of the US adjacent to the development of the big offshore wind projects currently being promoted and subsidized by the Biden administration. It turns out those projects are being sited in well-known migration corridors for an array of whale and other marine mammal species, several of which are listed as endangered species. The protection of such species is the reason Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act to begin with. Attempts to enact major reforms to permitting processes in democracies that strive to protect the environment and human and animal rights are going to be messy and difficult. Manchin and others seeking to smooth the path for the enormous new infrastructure required by the net-zero project are not just clearing away bureaucracy: they are seeking to change a lot of settled law which was enacted by elected legislatures because the people wanted it. There is much, much more at the link below. Enjoy. #energy #permitting #permittingreform #JoeManchin #JohnHickenlooper #BillCassidy #endangeredspecies #environment https://lnkd.in/ga2wT5S2

In CDN our oil & gas industry was forced to reinvent itself because of 200 ducks in the oilsands, but have we really considered the environmental impacts of wind/solar in CDN before we build them????