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Standing up for the regions.
RENEWABLES RALLY
Scores of farmers, landowners, conservationists and residents from across southern NSW joined their national counterparts in a rally protesting regional renewable energy developments.
The National Rally Against Reckless Renewables was planned to coincide with the first sitting day of Parliament, starting at 9:45 am on the lawns in front of Parliament House.
In the planning since late December, the rally was geared to represent regional communities directly and adversely affected by what organisers say is the Australian Government’s “reckless rollout of renewables”.
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This coalition of grassroots community groups has united under the National Rational Energy Network (NREN) and its chair, Coolah farmer Grant Piper, in urging governments to cease what they consider to be a hasty “…rollout of unreliable, unaffordable, and environmentally destructive wind, solar, limited ‘firming’ batteries, and high-voltage transmission lines, amidst an ever-increasing demand for reliable electricity”.
“This poses a significant threat to our nation, threatening food production for Australians and 80 million consumers globally. Our fauna and flora are facing unprecedented destruction, as hundreds of thousands of hectares of land and ocean floors are being deforested and/or damaged.”
He says renewables pose a threat to the economy to the tune of over $121 billion.
Speakers at the rally included:
Boorowa farmer Sam McGuiness, the Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce, Ross Cadell and Matt Canavan, One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts; Ralph Babet and former MP Craig Kelly of the United Australia Party, Bob Katter Liberal and senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Gerard Rennick.
Attendees called on the Australian government to conduct a senate inquiry to scrutinise the technical veracity and economic, social and environmental costs of “renewables”.
In addition, their possible impact on our national interest and security.
They’re also demanding the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Energy Council suspend wind, solar, hydro and associated transmission construction until the above Senate inquiry reports.
Standing up against the ‘net zero cult’ who have endless projects in the pipeline to transform Australia.
A GROWING FIGHT
Massive taxpayer subsidies and electricity bills will flow offshore for decades to the many “greenwashed” multinationals lined up for these subsidised “investments”, according to event organisers.
With over 1000 new renewable projects in the government’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) Rewiring the Nation pipeline; almost all located in regional Australia.
“Our concerns sit, firstly, around short, insincere, and unacknowledged community consultation exploiting the fact most of these projects are located in or near coastal, farming, and traditional communities with small populations,” Piper said.
“The government continues to disregard our concerns,” he said, and in most cases, he asserts, their right to judicial review or appeal has or will be removed.
This issue has become a very hot one for regional Australians over the past 12 months.
Farmers protesting the rollout of new power line projects drove their tractors into the heart of Melbourne last August, as the federal government declared we have ‘no time to lose’ on renewables.
The mounting community backlash against new “transmission lines” needed to shift the electricity grid from coal-fired power to renewable energy is a crucial fight for federal and state governments.
Today, Australia is experiencing one of the world’s fastest energy transitions as the economic viability of coal-fired power stations, which still make up two-thirds of the electricity grid, is set
This protest followed news in New South Wales where Australia’s largest state farming organisation called for a ban on solar project developments until rural interests are properly addressed.
Indeed, the backbone of Australia are not happy at all.
They are the latest on the chopping board. Under the previous government, some of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station owners announced plans to bring forward their closure dates.
AGL’s Liddell coal plant in NSW closed, while at least four more – the Yallourn generator in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, NSW’s Eraring and Vales Point plants, and Queensland’s Callide B – will close before 2030.
Workers at these plants staged their own protests over job security as this transition occurs, calling for the establishment of a legitimate energy transition authority to oversea decisions.
Photo: AKI
At present, power line delays in NSW and Victoria are being driven by local objections that impact key projects such as HumeLink in NSW and the Western Renewables Link and VNI West in Victoria.
The projects will have an unknown toll on property values, the environment and the landscape.
“There are documented serious supply chain and sustainment issues, and therefore reliability risks, potentially leading to mass blackouts,” Piper said.
I’m sure the government would love for that to happen, now wouldn’t they..
All part of the plan..
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I’m just not quite sure how this government thinks we are going to still operate businesses, industry and farming with ‘net zero’ in mind. I’m not sure how going all electric is solving anything. The electrical companies are already having trouble keeping up with demands and keeps telling people to turn off their air conditioners so they can cope with the extra demand. Tearing down forests and decimating good farming land to put wind turbines and solar panels is going to end up causing massive deserts. In what way is this good for the environment? These people are not practical and have no idea about how things on the ground level really work. Shades of Stalin’s collectives and Mao’s new farming rationale. It doesn’t work!
Good on the farmers. This “renewable energy” agenda is one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on/in Australia, and boy, have there been plenty in our history. This poor benighted country is like a cash cow playground for the global parasites, and the government and all major political parties are beholden to them, and will thus ignore such protests. Didn’t I read somewhere that every wind turbine is subsidised to the tune of around $600,000?