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Good Year for Farmers Making Solar Power on the Side
By Good News Network Sunday, August 19, 2012
It's been a good year for Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec farmers who bought into solar energy. Farmer Michael Donohue estimates his investment of $400,000 for nine towers of solar panels will be paid off in about seven or eight years.
"When I installed that, it probably never crossed my mind that it was any sort of risk-management tool."
"If it's not going to rain, at least the sun is shining and it's making electricity," Donohue said.
(READ the story from the CBC)
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