Protected Newts Hold up Firm’s Solar Farm Scheme

Lightsource wants to put almost 16,000 solar panels on fields at Barn Farm, south of the B1352 Harwich Road.

But now the company have withdrawn their plans after Great Crested Newts were found within 2km of the site.

via www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk

 

Within 2 km of the site? Are they serious?

But I thought ecological consultants were arguing that solar farms benefit wildlife (and newts especially)? Heaven forbid a large population of newts should be found close to the the boundary of a proposed solar farm in Kent. Oh wait...