Pursuits
Six Flags Has a Plan for a Solar Energy Farm. It Would Kill 19,000 Trees
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Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey’s epicenter of thrill rides, wants to build the state’s biggest solar farm to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. First, though, 19,000 trees will have to go.
The state environmental-protection department objects to the plan by Six Flags Entertainment Corp., saying such construction is better suited for land once used by industry, or atop warehouses and parking lots. So do conservationists, who sued May 4 seeking to prevent almost 100 acres of wetlands and animal habitats from becoming a 21.9-megawatt solar farm.