2023-05-04 00:00:00
The construction of solar power plants continues in rural areas of Japan. Japan already has the third largest power generation capacity in the world, but solar panels and mounting systems are not subject to the Building Standards Act, and even installation standards remain ambiguous. Is it necessary to increase it further? Former Sankei Shimbun reporter Gentaro Saegusa reports.
*This article was written by Taishi Sugiyama (editor), Emi Kawaguchi Mann, Hideki Kakeya, Jun Arima, and others.“Decarbonization” is a big lie to save the world(Takarajimasha Shinsho), “Natural Destruction and Disaster Risk of Mega Solar: The Dark Side of ‘Solar Power Generation’ That Is Not Reported” is a re-edited version.
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Around my house, “Why does it smell like a toilet?”
July 3, 2021, Izusan, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The rainy season front was stagnant in the Japanese archipelago. The amount of rainfall in this area reached 321 mm in 48 hours until 3:20 pm, and in the Izusan area, it was the highest rainfall observed in July. A woman in her 50s who lives in Mt. Izu has been feeling something unusual since the night before. Around her house there was a pungent smell of filth.
“Somebody threw out something weird? Why does it smell like a toilet?”
It was creepy to hear the mountain rumbling “Pan, Pan, Pan” for several days. She was talking to her family, “What is it?”, but I don’t know the cause.
At around 10:30 am on July 3rd, I noticed that the two houses that should have been in front of me were gone. When I left the house, a large amount of earth and sand was flowing by the house. When I called my relatives who lived nearby, they found that their house had also been swept away. I dressed her up and fled from home on a whim.
The largest debris flow was the fourth, which occurred shortly following. A large amount of debris flowed downstream while skimming the red three-story building. The footage of the firefighters who had gathered at the site to deal with the debris flow in its early stages and were running away was aired as a news video, causing a shock.
The house of the woman who gave this testimony was not washed away by the landslide, but it suffered considerable damage, and as of the end of August, the house remains uninhabitable.
The construction of a solar power plant has caused the forest to lose its ability to retain water
Was the Atami debris flow, which left 28 people dead or missing (as of the end of August 2021), a natural disaster? As the investigation progressed, it became clear that this debris flow might not be called a “murder” rather than a man-made disaster.
Kunio Shiozaka, a geologist who serves as a member of the Geological Structure and Water Resources Subcommittee of the Shizuoka Chuo Shinkansen Environmental Conservation Liaison Committee, said, “We developed the ridge (construction of a solar power generation facility), and it had water retention capacity until now. (rainwater) ran off because the forest disappeared.
Unfortunately, there is an access road (to the solar power plant), so this isgutterWater accumulated (at the starting point of the debris flow) like this, and all the water came here (the embankment)” (TV Asahi news on July 6, 2021). Mr. Shiosaka expressed a similar view to the local newspaper Shizuoka Shimbun.
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