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Energy Minister Chris Bowen said the project would spur jobs growth in the region.
The opposition is pitching directly to Labor voters unhappy with renewable projects in their area.
Australia’s infrastructure needs development—although solar and wind are useful resources in the clean energy transition, they produce considerable waste.
ARENA is delivering the funding to AEMO.
‘The state, federal, and foreign interests are directly attacking our friends, our neighbors, and families in these beautiful towns.’
‘The time for talk is over: we are investing right now in Australia’s green energy transition,’ Forrest said.
‘If you want to talk about bad optics, I don’t see how they could be any worse than right here,’ said Michael Chamberlain of Protect the Public’s Trust.
It has been revealed that a Queensland wind farm project is euthanising koalas to make way for wind turbines.
Accelerated deaths of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed and white-bellied sea-eagles are a grim reality if thousands of new wind turbines are built.
Portugal was able to sustain its nation of 10.4 million people completely on renewable energy for a record four whole days.
Wind power and solar power are ways to reduce carbon emissions, but these generation sources are dependent on the vagaries of the weather, which means neither wind nor solar can produce electricity on-demand at all hours of the day.
