Important activities and meetings in this month’s newsletter. Letter Writing Campaign To Governor Hogan – Kent County Commissioners Request Transportation 4-407 Opinion From Attorney General Frosh – Bay Bridge Public Meeting May 10th – Public … Read More »
Posts Categorized: Solar
MASSEY SOLAR PUBLIC HEARING
MASSEY SOLAR PUBLIC HEARING APRIL 26, 6:30 PM ST. CLEMENT CHURCH, MASSEY Please plan to attend the Public Service Commission hearing to let the Public Utility Law Judge know you support the need for … Read More »
KCPA NEWSLETTER 3.02.2018
HOUSE BILL 1199 Delegates Jacobs, Arentz, Ghrist, and Otto have submitted legislation entitled HB1199 NORTHERN BAY CROSSING. The intent of this bill is to prevent a BAY BRIDGE crossing that would terminate in Kent County. … Read More »
Public Service Commission Hearing on 55 Acre Solar Generation Plant
On March 6, 2018 at 6:30 a Public Service Commission Hearing will be held at the St Clement’s Episcopal Church in Massey regarding application for 55 acre solar generation plantat the intersection of MD 299 … Read More »
Mills Branch Solar/Apex has accepted the considered decision of the Maryland Public Service Commission
Kent Conservation and Preservation Alliance is pleased that Mills Branch Solar/Apex has accepted the considered decision of the Maryland Public Service Commission that its proposed industrial scale solar project will not be built at the … Read More »
Public Utility Law Judge Sober rejects Mills Branch Solar Project
Public Utility Law Judge Sober has rejected the Mills Branch Solar proposal to construct a 360-acre industrial Solar installation in the middle of Kent County prime agricultural land and denied them the Certificate of Public … Read More »
Solar Farming: Not a Good Use of Agricultural Land
An article by Ken Heiniger,NCSU Professor and Extension Specialist, discussing whether solar farms are a good use of agricultural land. He outlines both the short and long term issues to the land and to the … Read More »
Solar energy projects place farmland as ‘easy target’
Delmarva Farmer By JONATHAN CRIBBS Associate Editor ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Oct. 11, 2016) — A term that’s grown quietly in environmental circles across the nation over the last several years may have finally reached our regional … Read More »
KCPA Organizes to Protect Open Space in Kent County
The founders of the Kent Conservation & Preservation Alliance are the first to say that their new organization walks in the footsteps of some remarkable Kent County citizen committees. From Chestertown’s own little tea party … Read More »
Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference
Kent Conservation and Preservation Alliance(KCPA) sent representatives to Maryland Association of Counties(MACo) this past week. The information that was presented outlined the adverse effects associated with Mills Branch Solar in the Chesterville/Morgnec District of the … Read More »