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Representative groups call for better protections.
SOLAR FARM OPPOSITION
Australia’s largest state farming organisation, NSW Farmers, is calling for a temporary ban on the construction of new large-scale solar farms in the state.
In a motion passed at the association’s 2023 annual conference last week, NSW Farmers agreed to call on the state Labor government to place a moratorium on large scale solar developments until “planning deficiencies” around plant decommissioning and remediation are addressed.
The calls by the union come amid concerns developers are not acting in the long-term interests of regional communities with their aggressive expansion of the technologies without adequate transition.
“Current planning and approval provisions for large scale solar energy facilities do not take into account the long-term interests of agricultural land, rural communities and the rural landscape following the ‘decommissioning’ of the facility,” notes on the motion say.
“Agricultural land, rural communities and rural landscapes are at risk in the future and there should be no further development approvals granted until these planning deficiency issues have been fully addressed.”
To address these concerns, NSW Farmers wants the state government to set up a fund for upfront remediation payment obligations on developers, owners and land holders, like in the mining industry.
The association also wants the Minns government to ensure planning approval requires the developer and owner of the solar farm to remove all materials taken onto the site.
The call from NSW Farmers follows a recent warning from Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner, Andrew Dyer, that landowners may wind up lumbered with responsibility for cleaning up renewable power projects at the end of their lifespan, by default.
Which we have already seen across the world with other ‘green’ solutions like mass windmills.
Reg Kidd, the former Mayor of Orange and Chair of the NSW Farmers Energy Transition Working Group, spoke out on why the union and residents feel this is such a big concern.
“If this was happening in, say in Sydney suburbs, there would be yelling and screaming!” he told reporters.
“But it’s okay, plonk it out here, you know, there’s not as many votes out this way and they’ll just lump it.
Kidd, who says he has had solar installed at his own regional property for 16 years, says there’s a lot of angst in the region about the prospect of major new transmission lines, as well as about the placement of “monster” solar farms on prime agricultural land, when other options exist.
Australian regional areas, and their precious land, are being transformed at a rapid rate.
ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM
According to the Clean Energy Council’s latest national report card, NSW hosted the majority of new large-scale solar projects completed and commissioned in Australia in 2022.
The Clean Energy Australia 2023 report, published in April, locates eight of the 12 biggest large-scale solar projects commissioned in 2022 in NSW alone.
Of course, many of these projects are owned by offshore companies and groups, including the 150MW Sun Top solar farm in the state’s central west that was bought by online retail giant Amazon.
In Queensland, we are responsible for hosting the very largest of the solar farm projects across Australia, topped by the massive one-million-panel project in Western Downs region.
Many commentators have described these ‘planet saving’ set-ups as “environmental vandalism”, and when you take a drive down the east coast of Australia, you soon begin to notice them very quickly.
But even so, it’s undeniable that ‘renewable’ energy is falling out of favour in some of the regions across Australia, who are the backbone needed to push back against this suicidal ‘net zero transition’.
“It should be a major concern to all Australians about the damage to the environment because of the extensive renewable projects which are under construction or in the planning phase.”
Opposition to the climate lobby is growing, and without any action taken, it’s only going to get uglier from here, as CSIRO plan to cover our beautiful lands in truly Bladerunner fashion.
Well done to the NSW Farmers lobby for standing up and demanding more accountability and control over an unprecedented shift in resources being driven by unelected offshore bodies like the U.N.
Let’s support our regions in this battle to have their voices hears, and hope it spreads further!
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We need more localized energy production not large scale that has to travel vast distances. It is just crazy the pressure to meet some imaginary goal that will not happen and rush things through. 7.30 report just had a story on the ABC about transmission lines going across farming land without proper consultations. Build more local town solar energy, let towns keep their own power stored instead of putting it into the grid would be a good start. And look at all those empty roofs in cities!
Solar (and wind) energy are NOT renewable, both in that it takes far more energy to build them than will ever be extracted via them, and disposing of them is an issue.
The current most prevalent method for Wind Energy Converters (a politically-correct name for those go-arounders, each on a pole) is landfill. Solar panels contain toxic substances, so there is no officially prefered method.
Also, the term “fossil fuels” is a deliberate misnomer, as the vast majority of raw petroleum is being extracted from layers well below any containing fossils.
Humans being humans, several methods have already been invented for circumventing the “energy crisis,” including extremely efficient petroleum-powered engines, so the best approach now seems to be: nil adulterinus carborundum (including not bothering with the propaganda camoflaged as “news”).
SHIT, THOSE ‘SOLARge FARMS’ LOOK ‘EFFICIENT’! I wonder HOW MUCH Petra Chemicals are involved in their [ Panel/ Alumina Smelting/ Mass Cabling- Manufacture – ALL Energy usages] Then the OVERALL Design- Manufacture (Were they even ‘Made in Australia’ – ALWAYS look at the Cartons Folks, with their PROUD Aussie Flags & Bold Statements = Proudly Designed & Engineered in Australia!! Small print = Made in PRC [Please read Carefully], or the Phillipines, Or Malaysia, Or -, Or-.) Ooops! Back to Design/ Manufacture/ TRANSport/ Ground Works (Earthmoving/Trenching/ Concreting) Panel Installments & ALL associated Cable runs [ Voltage Drops/ Inefficiencies per Distances? & Panel ‘Outputs’ as a Mean average?], All associated Isolators, The Installation of Central Hub Collection Infrastructure including Building & Computation/ Monitors/ Testing AND- ONGOING Maintenances {& NOT forgetting, the Panels – Just like the USELESS Design Wind turbine Blades, are NOT Recyclable!
THANK GOD, I SAY , THANK GOD, The ‘Clean Energy Council’ of OStrangeLia ARE Involved!! – That must be just about, in the Same Historical Box as Previous Environmental Minstrels [ Mel Lease @ a Price] approving Ground water management Plans for the Adani Carmichael Coal mines! – With the same Drones involved – Clean Energy Council, They, appaRENTly [ ‘Someone’ must be RENTing Them], DO NOT understand the CO2 ‘Degradation issue’, for ‘They’THE Council, Complained about the Adani / Galilee Basin Coal burn producing 700 Million Tonnes Annually of Said INERT Gas[CO2 Gas, NEEDED for LIFE – Animal/ Plant, currently Sitting at a WHOPPING 0.0408 OF 1 % TOTAL in our atmosphere – UP from a Massive 0.035 OF 1 % TOTAL over the last 40 > 50 YEARS}, But NO mention of The HUGE Mercury Off gassing to Atmosphere & Other Pollutants! AMAZING!
In a Collaborative Pollution CONtribution, THE ‘CLIMBape’ Council- Apologies! That IS ‘Climate Council'[ Strangely Similar Logo to the ‘Clean Energy’ Council], has Just Wet their pants & Welcomed VICtopia’s Govt announcement, that from Next year ALL of VICtopia’s New houses will be ALL Electric!! – ClimbApe Councillor Dr Kate Charlesworth [ Equal opportunity For ÚNrealists’], said;
“This is great news for the Envioronment & Health of Victorians [those still left there or alive – Lol]. ‘We’ have known for years the damaging impacts of burning gas at home, such as the increasing risk of Childhood asthma. [ SO, NOTHING to do with increased ‘Vaccine’ protocols & Industrial Environmental pollutants (Including ‘G’ EMRadiations – Wireless/ WiFi), Not only Given TO, & Bathed in Daily, not only the Kids, But their Accumulative Generational Parent origins as well??] Further statements by same ‘Expert’;>
“Gas is an invisible harm, in our homes, schools, workplaces. The dangers it poses, especially to our children & Vulnerable households, cannot be completely eliminated, even with better ventilation!” = BULLSHIT!! I’ve been a Plumber/ Gasfitter for over 45 years, complete with All of the Govt/ Industry Regulations & Technocracy on ‘SAFETY’ Up to WAZOO! I ALWAYS ‘Love’ the USAGE of Vulnerable members of Society – for ‘Leverage’. [ Sound Familiar on CONVID as well ?] I’ll Consult 1 of my Historians on the Matter >;
“The State must declare the Child as the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is ‘Perceived’ as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment. of liberty and almost any deprivation.” Thanks once again – Adolph Hitler!
And WHAT IS/ ARE the ‘Credentials/AIMS’ of ALL of these ‘Experts’?? I’ll ask another one – A McKenzie CEO & Co Founder of the ‘Climate Council’ & Co Founder of THE Australian Youth Climate Coalition [ NOT for ‘Profit’- OF Course], & a raft of Political/ CorpoRAT interferences ‘PILING ON’ THE CLIMATE Agenda. Good News; With her Links to the Media Ms/Mrs/She Identified Her, Young ‘A’ has promoted the Climate Council’s ‘Clean Job Plan’, AND ‘Linking The Black Summer Bushfires/ Climate Change/ The Energy Debate in OZ- TOGETHER – Now THAT IS ‘Masterful’!
AND, there are MANY ways to BYPASS MIS/ DISassociations with ‘Groups’ such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, & Other ‘Bendevolent CONtributors’on Record!!
Another Side Track; Pull up BAMGF; Pull up Australia; Committed Grants. AMAZING the Amount of Cross Funded [ & Substantial Amounts]; RepedITive – Universities/ Certain Children’s Research Institutes’/ Institutes of Medical & Agriculture ‘Research & Psychological Wellbeing/ Programming’/ Govt Organisations -COMMON- to even Groups such as FIA – Just COINcidence really!
Last; Estimates U.S.er of A; In the area of battery technologies, science policy analyst David Wojick had deduced that the “grid scale storage” required to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power in a “net zero” United States would cost $23 trillion – matching the nation’s [ USA] annual GDP for 2021 {& THIS Doesn’t even account for their BANKRUPT Commerce @ U.S.$ 32,000,000,000,000 DEBT, of which ‘They’ can only ‘Cover’ 35 – 40 %!! ‘Black OFF the Books Debt’ – ANOTHER US$ 40 PLUS TRILLION- AND , ‘LUCKILY’, I can only get about U.S.$ to AU$ Exchange = 65 U.S. CENTS! ] Moving ON> Apart from its unsustainable costs, the renewables ecosystem is also harmful to the environment. Solar panels contain a toxic mix of gallium, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead and cadmium, among others. It costs an estimated $20 to $30 to recycle one panel while only $1 to $2 is needed to consign the same panel to a landfill. It is a similar story with millions of tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades [ Since the 1990’s] which themselves contain toxic materials that are leaching into the environment [ this DOESN’T include Failed/ Burnt Wind Turbine Components & Atmospheric Emissions from the Burning]. Ironically, wind power is heavily dependent on oil and its by products throughout its production-to-operation lifecycle. – DO NOT TELL THE CLIMATE SOMETHING- Er – Um COUNCIL! – APParently [ An AlGoreRythm will Solve IT!] = There’s NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
AND of Course The ALL SO COMFORTABLY NUMB 1st World ECO ‘SCIENCE’ SET [ VERY LOOSE TERM – FROM THE SAME CON-TRIVED SUPPORT ‘BIN’ AS CONVID] above, QUITE HAPPILY, look the Other way [OR DON’T THEY ‘KNOW’ {Wanna ‘KNOW’} – THE REAL WORLD ‘ACTUALS’ – Bit Like the Romanticized ‘PROGRAMMED’ Dept of Youth { Sorry Alice Cooper} – Still in Censored Traineeships” ], when Mention of the Vanilla Sky/ PRISTENE NEO Energy CONponents [Cobalt, an ‘E’ssential component of Lithium- Ion batteries.] , ARE Sourced from DUBIOUS Zones – Nearly 70% from the Toxic pits of the DR of Congo. Amnesty International; ‘Nearly 40,000 CHILDREN, slave away in these Toxic pits under APPALLING Conditions – I think the Pay is U.S. 25 Cents/ Hour! HEY, BILL & MELINDA, KATE-AMANDA- & TIM FLANNERS [ & a YouthFull Cast of Thousands – MesMoronEyesed Robots}, I, MISSED THIS SHIT ON YOUR SLICK – GROOMED- HOME, AND EXTENDEAD WEB PAGES!!
HOORAH!! – wellness