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Planning Committee Member Jerry Peterson wants to make sure the new solar array in Silver Cliff is not wasted on helping mining cryptocurrency At the regular meeting of the Silver Cliff Planning Committee (PC) on March 19, member Jerry Peterson warned the PC about the need to make sure that Silver Cliff’s industrial re-zoning takes cryptocurrency mining into account when they consider new regulations, particularly in the wake of the establishment of the new community solar farm. “I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with cryptocurrency mining,” Peterson said: “The reason I am a little bit concerned about it is that we are re-zoning for industrial, and the bitcoin people say ‘we can automatically put bitcoin mining in place’ [in an industrial zone] unless we have…