Representation by Christian Griffin
- Date submitted
- 2 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I am objecting to the application due to my concerns for Burwell and surrounding villages loosing valuable good quality farming land for over 20 years, resulting in having to import salads potatoes vegetables and more. The UK is only 64% self sufficient in food now. The Land Sunnica want is good quality irrigated farming land. This land also provides habitats for hundreds of species. I worry for the wildlife, the deer monk-jack hares and alike with natural wildlife runs shut off, they will be pushed to the roads to be killed and cause accidents. This scheme is not green, importing 1,000,000 solar panels and batteries from china leaves a huge carbon footprint. Will the scheme create more carbon in its lifetime than it ever saves ? I am concerned about the seventy seven acres of battery energy storage compounds close to homes, the Sunnica BESS would be the current largest in the world and I am to understand Sunnica LTD has no experience of building BESS on this scale? If the BESS catch fire can they be put out? I am concerned that Sunnica will buy cheap electricity out of the grid from renewable and non renewable sources, store it in their BESS and then sell it back to the grid when it is expensive, creating huge profits for Sunnica's Spanish owners. Their are other ways to generate Solar I am sure, but this application is flawed and also detrimental on a gargantuan level to the beautiful countryside surrounding our local villages, turning the outskirts all around industrial and grey.