The largest solar farm in the southern hemisphere lies on arid land at the foot of the Flinders Ranges, more than 300km north of Adelaide. If that sounds remote, it doesn’t do justice to how removed nearby locals feel from the energy debate in Canberra.
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| A worker, Andrew Bartsch, surveys the Bungala solar power plant, which will be the size of the Melbourne CBD. |
As government MPs and national newspapers have thundered in recent days over whether taxpayers should support coal-fired power, occasionally mauling advice from government agencies as they went, residents of South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf region have been left to ponder why decision-makers are not paying more attention to what is happening in their backyard.
Read the story from The Guardian by Adam Morton - “Life after coal: the South Australian city leading the way.”
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