Who will pay for the clean up of Wind Farms and Solar Farms when they have reached the ends of their lives? Millions of dollars in Regenerative work will be required in 25 – 35 years time when the proponents and operators of these projects have packed their bags and moved on.
Stan Moore and Louise Clegg at The Australian write about upcoming protests in Canberra against the "intended and unintended consequences of the the Albanese government’s plans to require enormous tracts of mostly privately owned land to host large-scale wind and solar farms and transmission powerlines and pipelines for future electricity generation."
“future generations of taxpayers are set to bear the burden of unprecedented and crushing remediation costs over tens of thousands of square kilometres of abandoned renewables projects – after the last known entity in a long line of asset recycling has conveniently gone belly up.”
Read the full article at The Australian: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/killing-fields-fear-solar-will-destroy-locals-livelihoods/news-story/f66a76c00862768c69c9060c31cc64e6