The council split on this issue was interesting - you had Knack and Nickel together on the No side, and Iveson and Caterina together on the yes side. I wonder how current council would have sided.
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“Next to the water treatment plant, on land that is reserved for its expansion, that’s previously disturbed, on a temporary basis to help us achieve our climate goals... Makes sense to me,” Mayor Don Iveson said.
When finished, the farm will consist of 45,000 solar panels on 54 acres of land south of the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant, which provides 65 per cent of the water used in the greater Edmonton region but is EPCOR’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The solar farm will power 70% of the plant.