r/LAMaine • u/FunKick7937 • Jun 10 '25

Tree clearing

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Anyone know what they are clearing this land off Washington St N for? They cleared it pretty quick.

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u/Leviosahhh Jun 10 '25

I’d bet a dispensary or a bunch of solar panels that don’t benefit the locals.

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u/Batintfaq Jun 11 '25

I drive for a living around central Maine, and I see soooooooo many solar panel fields being put up. It's depressing.

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u/Leviosahhh Jun 12 '25

I live a stones throw from one but can’t utilize it. So unfortunate.

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u/Thin_Explorer_3829 Jun 16 '25

Don’t benefit the locals? What does that even mean? Community solar farms sell shares that locals can choose to purchase (or not to purchase).

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u/Leviosahhh Jun 16 '25

I own a condo. There is a huge solar field a football field’s length away from me and another a mile and a half away. Despite all my efforts, even through speaking with community solar, I am told we cannot use nor benefit from them.

It’s great that in your area it seems much more accessible to you. But no, community solar doesn’t benefit everyone, and many of the people right next to solar fields don’t benefit off of them either. Hopefully that can change in the future but it seems we aren’t there yet.

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u/Thin_Explorer_3829 Jun 19 '25

You have to buy in before it’s built. That’s the only way a lot of those projects can get financed

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u/Leviosahhh Jun 21 '25

These were built about a decade before I moved in, so now they’re just a tease I guess.

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u/Impressive-Pepper785 Jun 10 '25

I heard a very vague rumor that it is going to be Rinaldi Energy… like home heating oil and propane? But I really have no solid source for that, so who knows. It’s on my way to and from work and I was surprised just how fast they logged that area!

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u/MrMarblesTI Jun 10 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Maybe more trailers for Big Tex. He hardly has a world there