Timeline
Our Programs at The Sane Solar Power Group
Our journey started by attending one of the two information sessions held by EDPR/BCE (the applicants) on the evening of March 19 2026. We quickly met with neighbours in the small Ballalaba area to discuss what we’d heard. When we went into Braidwood and Majors Creek (the big smoke around here) we found many hadn’t heard of the project. Others had high (and unfounded) expectations as to what the farm would achieve. Yet others laboured under misconceptions as to who the farm would be owned by, and what it would deliver under what circumstances. Community awareness of, and knowledge about, the solar farm was low.
Once the DA was up we met again and studied it. The consensus was that the DA was deficient in many ways. It failed to address key questions re safety (fires and water pollution), ownership, compensation and site remediation. Several of the expert reports submitted in the DA (we believe) had faults and errors of omission. As QPRC allowed only three weeks to make submissions there was little time to consult with the broader community. The community consultation process was far too short for that. It was tokenistic...a railroad process designed (we think ) to accelerate the easy passage of this DA.
Once submissions were in, we’ve had time to launch our campaign to alert all households in the district of what was going on under their noses. and that’s where we stand today, trying to get the right solution in the right place.
