“Some residents of the Packwood and Serven Road area, where the Trelina Solar Energy Center will be built, are asking questions about the solar panels. They want assurances that the panels will not contain environmentally hazardous chemicals or materials.
The 80 megawatt project was approved for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need by the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment Nov. 30 after a two-year review process.
Joe Wukitsch, George Dutton and Eugene Moretti, neighbors to the solar project, have asked Trelina officials to provide assurances that the photo-voltaic panels don’t have negative environmental impacts related to the manufacturing, operational lifetime and disposal of the panels and battery storage systems.”
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Shaw, David. Finger Lake Times 27 December 2021.