The chemicals it takes to manufacture solar panels and batteries wreak havoc on the environment–just pulling them out of ground. The manufacturing process is also such that the EPA won’t let it be done in the US. And the end product? Yeah, not so much on the purported environmentally friendly either.
Especially when those solar panels are pounded to dust by a hailstorm. Four thousand acres of them.
That’s a LOT of chemicals being released. IMO, EPA Superfund levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Right into the soil and water table.
ETA: there are only certain types of solar panels that will release chemicals when broken (thin film or Copper Indium Gallium Selenide panels). I don’t know what kind of panels are in those fields (and since no one can get ahold of the environmental impact study, no one else does either).
ETA Again: It is unlikely that there will be any chemicals released from the panels themselves. However, there is quite a mess out there and a lot of broken glass. Considering the scope, there’s a lot of cleanup to be done. And still, no environmental impact study. The only thing that the Fighting Jays website says about hail damage is that there is insurance.
When he first saw the damage, Kaminski says he was shocked.
He was one of the residents worried about the environmental impact before the solar farms were built.
“That’s correct. I was worried about it,” Kaminski said.
Nick showed us emails he sent to Fort Bend County Commissioners, the Fort Bend Economic Development Council, and the owners of Fighting J’s Solar Farm asking for the environmental impact report.
“We’ve asked for the same studies, and we’ve been treated the same way,” said Mikes Fugua who also lives near the solar farms. “We got nothing out of them.”
“My concern is the hail damage that came through and busted these panels we now have some highly toxic chemicals that could be potentially leaking into our water tables,” said Kaminski
“There’s numerous makeup in the chemicals on this thing,” Fugua said. “The majority of them are cancer-causing.”
People are being sold a bill of goods when they are being told that solar farms are ‘environmentally friendly and green’. They are the exact opposite.
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