Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has embarked on an important venture to provide what they characterize as concierge services to permit applicants to assist them in the approval process. This is a good thing. It will expedite permitting, help protect the environment and enhance economic development statewide. There is a problem, however, with the efforts of the “client concierge team.”
The team has missed the mark with regard to protecting source water resources—the water that we depend on for drinking, cooking and bathing. What’s troubling is a “fact sheet” implies a policy preference of DEEP. The most recent fact sheet, Information for Solar Developers: An Environmental Permitting Factsheet addresses nine critical factors in solar development: protection of state or federally listed species, wetlands, storm water, dam safety, flood management, forestry, Brownfields, solid and hazardous waste landfills and “other considerations.”
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