Whitcomb told MLive that he hopes to use some solar revenues to buy land for uses like connecting wildlife habitat or carbon sequestration,
Despite Michigan’s Healthy Climate Plan advising officials to “avoid land-use conversion that causes a net increase in [greenhouse gas] emissions and prioritise.
I and uses that reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions” with regard to the state’s waters and forests. According to Whitcomb, a major transmission line already cuts the 420 acres in half,
Which will facilitate the installation of the solar farm and reduce the likelihood that additional power lines will need to be constructed.
Whitcomb told MLive that he would like to expand the development here rather than start a new one somewhere that would have the same effects.
Requests for comment were not immediately answered by the Michigan DNR or the office of Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
