You can't make this stuff up. Couple awarded $135M after solar project turns their lake to ‘mud hole’
And I thought Irony was dead as an art form.
A Southwest Georgia couple was awarded $135 million last week by a federal jury for damages caused by sediment pollution that spilled onto their property from a massive solar electricity project built next door.
The jury found Silicon Ranch, a Nashville-based solar power developer, and its contractor, Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA), were negligent and acted with “specific intent to cause harm” in constructing the 100-megawatt solar facility in Stewart County, just south of Columbus.
The company in question didn't follow simple rules that should be in place for ANY construction project today.
According to the lawsuit, the defendants cleared vegetation and mass-graded nearly 1,000 acres of land uphill from the Harrises without installing adequate erosion controls around the project.
And the property that was destroyed? It had been a wildlife refuge. Past tense.
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