GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO EDUCATION

UPDATE Mar. 2018 SD 58, somebody finally gets it   it was deemed that the project didn’t make sense from an economic point of view.


The school district bought 10 of the Nelson Community Solar Garden solar panels.   One for each school so the students could watch the data and learn from it, huh?  The high school already had a solar demonstration system with public data on the internet to learn from.  Attending a school board trusteed and admin meeting the question was asked did they know they already had a solar system at LVR,  nobody knew except Larry Brown their operations manager who wrote in the local paper this is the first solar project that makes economic sense?  Hello?

Reading the city project information the following statement: "A non-­‐refundable deposit of $500 per
panel will be collected"  I ask the city return all monies to the school district!!!



The engineers data is unsupportable by years of real Nelson solar data, its from a swiss computer modeling program.

Using the LVR High school solar system $25,000 grant demonstration system public data, more realistic, its actually less.  (this High school solar system isn't enough, the SD8 has to spend more money on solar?)

From November through February and I won't go through the math.

The LVR High School  data shows each SD8 solar panel might average for those 4 months what our dam makes for

10c/month.

Do you want the city to return these education dollars?  SD8 bought 10 of these panels for $900 each,  plus $100 admin and taxes about $1100 each

contact city council

send a message to mayor and all councilors here


Why would public dollars fund solar systems that can't compete with clean green waterpower we make a huge profit from helping to pay for city projects and reduce taxes.

Ministry of education funds should be spent for student activities not greenwashing BS.


If there ever was a phony green washing project, there isn't likely one more absurd than this, a city with its own hydro dam, the only one in western canada, reducing our taxes by 36%.