Representation by Amanda Golding
- Date submitted
- 17 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
As a farmer and parent whose land is not directly effected by the proposal, I still have grave concerns on the following grounds: 1. Large scale Li-ion BESS battery safety/noxious fumes are a huge health and safety concern. The batteries are known to have caused many fires across the world that have been near impossible to put out but simply have to be contained. Toxic fumes could spread for miles across the flat fens and land endangering many members of the public. 2. Loss of arable, food producing, irrigated, farmland when recent events have proved the UK needs to be more self-sufficient. 3. Almost exclusive import of Chinese (Uighar region) components in 45% of Solar PV polysilicon - raises huge human rights issues - which will muddy the Government's hands. Indeed Dominic Raab tore up recent solar contract because of links with human rights abuse. 4. Other more efficient renewable energy options in the locality: North Sea - hydro, Wind - turbines, Small scale solar on roofs of industrial buildings and homes. Germany produces 70% of their solar from rooftop solar and wind turbines [Redacted] without the need to disturb food producing agricultural land. 5. Sunnica appear to have little (if no) experience of delivering solar farms on this giant scale. What makes them the right organisation to undertake such a project. Their financial status does not induce confidence. 6. Size of proposed Solar Farm/Battery plant: will turn local rural villages into industrial hamlets, especially those in the "horseshoe". 7. Voluntary offers of land were given before a lot of the important information came to light. Now landowners are "locked in" without means of escape.