Batteries spark farmer backlash
More than 200 farmers and community members packed Shady Creek Hall last week to voice fierce opposition to multiple industrial-scale battery storage projects proposed for prime dairy country in West Gippsland.
More than 200 farmers and community members packed Shady Creek Hall last week to voice fierce opposition to multiple industrial-scale battery storage projects proposed for prime dairy country in West Gippsland.
A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.
The safety of workers and the integrity of renewable energy projects across the state has been called into question last week, after a nationwide audit was launched following the discovery of asbestos in wind turbine components.
One Nation will push for the construction of a nuclear reactor in regional NSW, as Pauline Hanson courts Barnaby Joyce to join the party.
Recent articles by Simon Holmes a Court and Rod Sims fail to reveal the true costs of renewable power
A former Treasury official has raised doubts about the department’s modelling on net-zero targets which claim green exports would exceed fossil fuel exports within seven years, even under a disorderly transition to net zero.
“Power bills are high but the rollout of renewables are not the cause.” Consider that sentence; a staggering understatement, followed by a brazenly false assertion.
AGL Energy has walked away from its Victorian offshore wind ambitions, toppling a third project in the Gippsland region and throwing into disarray the Allan government’s plan to trade coal for the clean energy source.
A green energy company proposing to build a giant wind farm in regional NSW has received an explosive letter from local First Nations people, saying it is “not welcome” and the project “doesn’t belong here”.
Labor’s treatment of rural Victorians has been shameful. But the country is fighting back and one particular standoff shows how fed up farming communities are with the state government.
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest is the latest green energy player to be caught up in a widening systemic failure after asbestos was found contained within new imported turbine components at one of his wind farms.
‘‘If the energy transition is an open-heart surgery, as is sometimes said, then this operation has been a complete failure. We have to conclude: The patient is in danger of dying on the operating table.’’
