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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


January 12, 2024 • Australia, OpinionsPrint storyE-mail story

City NIMBYs v regions in a fight over renewables

Farmers and others from regional communities will rally in Sydney’s Martin Place next week to campaign against renewable energy projects that will blight landscapes, alienate farmland, damage bushland and disrupt livelihoods. Public protests do not come naturally to people of the land; we can be relatively confident they will not glue themselves to the road, chain themselves to critical infrastructure or block the traffic, and I doubt children will be given the day off school to join them. But governments . . . Complete story »


January 12, 2024 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Battling offshore wind for NSW coast

Down in Austinmer, that pretty northern Illawarra village south of Sydney, with its crescent beach and tidal pools, Dr Saul Griffith can hear each day half a dozen coal trains thundering down the railway line near his home as he despairs about the ­nation’s energy future. About 50km south down the M1 and off Grand Pacific Drive, Jay McIlquham, president of the Shellharbour Game Fishing Club, is fuming that his rights to fish offshore could soon be threatened in the . . . Complete story »


January 9, 2024 • Australia, Print storyE-mail story

New bid to scuttle Robbins Island wind farm looks headed for Supreme Court

A new bid to scuttle the controversial Robbins Island wind farm proposal is headed for the Supreme Court. The appeal from long-time project opponent the Circular Head Coastal Awareness Network is against the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s recent decision to approve the wind farm. TasCAT overrode a state Environment Protection Authority condition that would have forced proponent ACEN to shut down the turbines for five months a year to protect endangered orange-bellied parrots. ACEN said that would make the . . . Complete story »


January 8, 2024 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Tanya Plibersek blocks Victorian government’s plan to build wind turbine plant at Port of Hastings

Environment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development. Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian government to build a plant to assemble wind turbines for offshore windfarms because of “clearly unacceptable” impacts on internationally important wetlands. Plans to build the terminal at the Port of Hastings – seen as critical for the state’s strategy to develop an offshore wind industry – included dredging up to 92 hectares (227 . . . Complete story »


January 8, 2024 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Plibersek ruling on Victoria’s offshore wind strategy an ill-wind for ALP energy policy

Labor’s renewable energy target has been thrown into jeopardy after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek vetoed its lynchpin, Victoria’s offshore wind strategy, over a “clearly unacceptable” risk to local wetlands. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s green energy plan centres on a terminal at the Port of Hastings, where wind turbines will be assembled together and sent to an array of offshore energy farms. Initial estimates by the state-owned Port of Hastings corporation in October priced the project at $0.8-$1.4bn. But Ms Plibersek . . . Complete story »


December 18, 2023 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Emotions run high as Monaro residents face off against wind farm proponents

Monaro landholders have their slings aimed at an Australian energy developer planning to erect 25 colossal wind turbines across plains 11 kilometres south of Cooma. The issue is already shaping up as a David vs Goliath battle, which last week became emotive during a public meeting in the Snowy Monaro town. A crowd of more than 100 concerned Monaro residents made their overwhelming objection to the development clear when they confronted representatives of Sydney-based developer Someva Renewables at The Alpine . . . Complete story »


December 13, 2023 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Farmer fury in Australia signals tough road to renewable energy

Hundreds of farmers are refusing to allow high-voltage overhead power lines to pass through their land, opposition that is threatening Australia’s plans to increase renewable generation and reduce emissions by 43% from 2005 levels by 2030. Australia intends to build 10,000 km (6,200 miles) of power lines by 2050 to connect wind, solar and hydro projects to the grid. Without them, fewer renewables can be brought into the power supply, and emissions targets are unlikely to be met. A faltering . . . Complete story »


December 6, 2023 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Windfarm plans in choppy waters as Coalition and One Nation whip up doubts

Frank Future didn’t expect to find an ally in Peter Dutton over his concerns that the offshore wind farm proposed for the Hunter region could have an irreparable impact on the environment. “He came out with a group of us on that one over there,” he says, pointing to a boat floating metres from the whale watching vessel that he’s run in Nelson Bay for nearly 30 years. “He really saw that there was limited community consultation before that zone . . . Complete story »


December 6, 2023 • Australia, LettersPrint storyE-mail story

Big worries over impacts

I am concerned about the impacts of climate capitalism on the environment and costs of living. Evidently a wind turbine can use about 30,000 tonnes of iron ore from coal coking, about 30,000 tonnes of concrete from shale and limestone mining, about a tonne of rare earth neodymium with uranium and thorium waste, cobalt mining using child slave labour, and balsa wood from deforestation of the Amazon. Then there is the transportation. Also there is deforestation, erosion and sedimentation, plus . . . Complete story »


November 27, 2023 • Australia, Print storyE-mail story

Robbins Island wind farm ruling ‘devastating’ for orange bellied parrots

A tribunal has overturned a requirement for a proposed wind farm to shut down for five months each year to protect migrating orange bellied parrots, in a major win for the industry. Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff on Monday welcomed as “pragmatic” an appeal ruling by the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on the Robbins Island wind farm, proposed for the state’s far northwest. He said the decision effectively overruled an Environment Protection Authority ruling that would have killed the $1.6 . . . Complete story »


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