Senate likely to throw up more barriers to wind farms

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he Senate will likely vote on the renewable energy target today.

The vote, scheduled for Thursday, was delayed by last-minute negotiations between the Government and crossbenchers to further control wind farms.

The RET is critical to investment in more renewable energy power in Australia and political debate has caused long delays to projects ready to be built in Victoria.

Wind farms worth almost $5 billion are poised to go in Victoria.

Thirteen projects with 854 turbines have won municipal council and State Government support

Read the Weekly Times story - “More barriers to wind farms likely by Senate vote”.

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RET talk shuts down Mildura solar power plant

Even the mere suggestion the Australia’s Renewable Energy Target would be reduced, or even scrapped completely, has brought immediate consequences.

A story in the Weekly Times tells us that: “Plans to build one of Australia’s largest solar power stations near Mildura have been axed”.

The story reports: “The proposed multi-million dollar 100 megawatt Silex Mildura Power Station Project, located in Carwarp, has been abandoned following uncertainty surrounding the revised Renewable Energy Target and low wholesale electricity prices.

“The Mildura solar power station would have provided electricity to 40,000 homes.

“But the company behind the project, Solar Systems, says it could be scaled back to a more feasible operation,” the Weekly Times report notes.

Farmers stand on the front line, but are being duped

Farmers are among the first to deal with the rigours of climate change.

Farmers are on the climate change front line.

The question is being asked as to why the Australian Government appears to be treating the critical aspect of our community with such disrespect.

The question has been asked in a Weekly Times story headed: “Farmers taken for a ride on carbon planning”.

Farmers are reliant on the weather, so the question is asked why the Government think it could get away with saying we should do nothing to cut pollution that is changing the weather upon which they are so dependent?

Writing in the Weekly Times, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s senior economists, Dugald Murray, who argued the where climate change is concerned, your interest, the national interest and global interests are one and same.