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Community calls for renewed city backing to complete Sunnyside landfill solar project
Summary
Community members and Solar United Neighbors appealed to council to accelerate permitting and find energy purchasers (offtakers) to complete a solar farm project planned for a closed Sunnyside landfill, honoring a late local leader who helped advance the proposal.
Speakers urged the council on Feb. 4 to renew support for plans to build a community- and commercial-scale solar installation on a closed landfill in Sunnyside and to help secure energy buyers that would enable full site restoration and construction.
Dori Wolf, who described herself as a volunteer with Solar United Neighbors and a Sunnyside native, recalled community leader Ephraim Jernigan, who helped organize local students and residents around a…
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