Multibillion-dollar renewable energy projects are creating anxiety and mistrust in rural communities.
Colin Packham, energy reporter at The Australian reported in last weekends Weekend Australian that Australia’s aggressive targets to develop renewable energy generation sources to meet emissions-reduction targets, has led to a gold rush-style wave of developers moving into communities. National Farmers Federation chief executive Tony Mahar said Labor would need to win over sceptical landowners and farmers, arguing that the ‘capacity-investment scheme’ failed to examine the real impacts on agricultural land.
Read the full article at The Australian: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/renewable-energy-cowboys-versus-communities/news-story/cd04b96436c5bb670b77e75b022b9610
