Many thanks Coun. Barkwill

Many thanks to Coun. Richard Barkwill for researching and providing all the recent information regarding solar and hydro energy and clearing up the misinformation previously provided to Summerland Council.

What he has failed to make clear though, is that the issue regarding the solar farm is not about how much higher the greenhouse gases (GHGs) from solar are than hydro — it is the fact that with all official forecasts having B.C. producing a surplus of power until the 2030s, additional electricity projects create unnecessary GHGs.

All the GHGs from our dams will continue to be there, whether we use the power or not. Creating more GHGs from unneeded solar power is only adding to the pending climate disaster.

To say the project is a green energy project for the future is misguided, it will be an unnecessary contributor.

Barkwill has already pointed out the fallacies around other aspects of the project, but the environmental aspects are the biggest fallacy. And, you can add to that the very questionable economics of the project if you include the value of the land, even if you think federal money is free money.

We scrape around trying to reduce GHGs here and there, and then do a project like this. What sort of environmentally-minded councillors do we have?

Lorraine Bennest

Summerland

I am quite sure his brain will be back as he reattempts to fix a long -time failure that just doesn’t hold water.

Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, it has been said.

So do guns abused by criminals and many people from different walks through life who snap for reasons only they know.

Several murders happened here in beautiful Penticton.

Both scumbags murdered innocents. One of the killers, a retired cop, is still breathing and on the pension payroll. Just another true story of corrupt justice weighed out by illegal scales that need to be replaced by truck scales.

Tom Isherwood

Olalla

right