{"id":263522,"date":"2023-06-23T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263522"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:04:40","slug":"no-deal-aussie-farmers-reject-massive-wind-solar-transmission-grid-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263522","title":{"rendered":"No Deal: Aussie Farmers Reject Massive Wind & Solar Transmission Grid\u00a0Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wind cultist is always ready to spear hundreds of giant 240m (787ft) industrial wind turbines into your backyard, but howls bloody outrage should the \u2018favour\u2019 look like being returned. Destroying your patch of paradise is a sacrifice that he is always willing to make. Characters like former Greens leader, Bob Brown<\/a> and rent-seeking renewables lobbyist, Oliver Yates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other \u2018joy\u2019 that these hypocrites are keen to deliver (unselfishly) to everyone but themselves are the thousands of kilometres of high voltage transmission lines that are required to collect and deliver the dilute and diffuse power occasionally generated by wind turbines and solar panels scattered all over the countryside, often hundreds of kilometres from the homes and businesses where it might be consumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with their approach to jamming hundreds of giant wind turbines and seas of solar panels into peaceful and prosperous rural communities, the corporates involved in the grand wind and solar transmission mission are treating their victims with the same high-handed contempt and receiving much the same reaction, as the team from Jo Nova reports below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who needs farmers? The Greens create 10,000 km of high voltage industrial pain<\/strong>
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
8 June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s Power Grid is full<\/a> they say, and to collect all the sacred green electrons and save the world now means building thousands of kilometers of high voltage towers that will carve up farms and wilderness, damage property values, and ruin good farming land. For some reason, inner city activists think that\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But out in the country farmers and rural people are angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Few people want giant wind turbines spoiling the view and their sleep, but if the turbines are built in lonely far-flung spots, then thousands of 70m high steel towers will have to cross the land anyhow to connect their useless electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In theory the Renewable Crash Test Dummy nation\u00a0\u201cneeds\u201d another 10,000km of new transmission lines<\/a>\u00a0and they\u2019re supposed to be built before 2030. To get some idea of just how impossible this is, consider Humelink which is meant to be the interconnector to \u201cSnowy 2.0\u201d (the doomed pumped storage scheme). It is only 360km long and was supposed to cost $1.1 billion but is now projected to cost $3.3 billion. What will the other 9,600 kilometers worth cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re struggling to build those towers<\/strong>
It may have seemed like a good idea on the back of an envelope in Canberra, but out in the country, landowners are forming alliances to refuse the compensation on offer, saying they want the lines put underground, which will make building the transmission lines even slower and much more expensive. Only about 40% of the property owners affected by Humelink plans have accepted the offers, which means 60% haven\u2019t. Given the schedule for blowing up coal plants in Australia, governments here are getting desperate, and are ramping up the offers \u2014 in NSW and Victoria landowners could get as much as $200,000 per kilometer in compensation. In Queensland the going rate is $300,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers are not impressed. Some were arguing that they would lose an 80 m wide easement across their land. They can\u2019t build or dig too close to the towers in case it weakens the footings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This banker (and his neighbours) could slow the energy transition<\/strong>
Angela Macdonald-Smith and Colin Packham \u2014Australian Financial Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katz \u2013 and others \u2013 have already rejected an offer from the NSW government of $200,000 for every kilometre of his land crossed by a major infrastructure project, a payment which was designed to put an end to a deadlock between landowners and the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katz says that allowing large pylons \u2013 each as tall as those on the Sydney Harbour Bridge \u2013 would reduce the value of his property by 30 per cent and significantly change how he manages his herd of cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not believe, \u2026 that it makes sense to build it as an overhead line with such huge risks in causing environmental destruction in the name of saving the environment. That seems to me a non sequitur of monumental portions,\u201d Katz tells AFR Weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria assesses the scale of change required this decade to meet targets for 2030 as <\/a>\u201ctruly staggering\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calabria told a business lunch in late November that the urgency and complexity of the challenge to meet the 2030 targets increases every day \u2013 as does the cost. The risk looms large of losing support for the transition from the community, which has been promised cheaper and cleaner energy from the process with little perception of the expense involved, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One young Victorian  farmer started building a new dream home only to find the bureaucrats wanted to erect the towers on his property<\/a> and only 60m from his house.  \u201cI\u2019m completely gutted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4,000 people have joined<\/a> the \u201cPiss Off Ausnet\u201d protest group in Victoria and protests are continuing. In NSW, the HumeLink Alliance are growing and further north<\/a> The Merriwa Cassilis Alliance<\/a> have won concessions in the Hunter Valley. (The line will now go through public land and old mining areas which will reduce the impact on farmers). Never mind about the wilderness though\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They explained some of the ways these transmission lines affect farmers<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Height restrictions on farming machinery, interference on guidance technology and the no go areas for aerial management means crops and pastures could not be managed in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Standard farming machinery like headers and boom sprays over 4.6m will be out of action, deemed too high to drive frequently and safely under these power lines. The use of light aircraft to manage crops, spread fertiliser and control pests and diseases would also be too dangerous to carry out near the powerlines. These practices are regularly carried out when crops or pastures are too advanced to manage on the ground.
Strategic agricultural land and transmission lines don\u2019t mix!
It takes a lot of infrastructure to connect up the Green Totems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australians lose either way<\/strong>
If the government pays for the transmission lines, and pays adequate compensation to farmers, which they should if they build them, that just means the average Australian gets screwed for an even bigger bill to build the Green religious talismans against storms a hundred years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only people who benefit are the subsidy-farmers in the city, the foreign manufacturers of unreliable generators, adversaries that want to ruin competing industries, and any potential military foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would cost about 0.0001% of this to audit the UN science committees and find that it was all a waste of money.
Jo Nova Blog<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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