{"id":279301,"date":"2023-09-18T15:16:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279301"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:16:45","slug":"clean-energy-dirty-tricks-a-500-gift-card-for-signing-over-your-property-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279301","title":{"rendered":"Clean Energy Dirty Tricks? A $500 Gift Card for Signing Over Your Property Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aussie Clean energy companies attempting to action the Left wing Albanese Government\u2019s green grid expansion, appear to have turned to unsavoury practices to try to progress their agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The clean energy super highway has hit a roadblock. Here\u2019s why<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landline<\/a> \/ By national regional affairs reporter Jane Norman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a power giant offered Katherine Myers a $500 gift card, she had no idea she was about to give away unrestricted access to her property for the next four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A self-described naturally trusting person, it was only when a relative read the fine print that she realised what privately owned entity AusNet was after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy father-in-law went through the agreement and said, \u2018No, this is actually providing unfettered access for four years for both surface [and] invasive surveys on the property\u2019,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myers declined the card but the power imbalance, she says, was clear from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey told us that we could have that gift card if we signed up to voluntary access but they also told us that if we don\u2019t, that they\u2019ve got Section 93 powers and they\u2019d come on our land anyway<\/strong>,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-09-17\/clean-energy-super-highway-hits-roadblock-farmers-lock-the-gate\/102812602<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The gift card was allegedly issued in relation to constructing the Western Renewables Link<\/a> in the Australian state of Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, power companies or their contractors or whichever party is responsible are out of their minds trying to pull such stunts. They need the cooperation of country folk. Most country folk are law abiding, but if they keep beating on country people through unsavoury practices, threats and legal compulsory property powers, sooner or later some of them will lose faith in the law. We could end up with the same situation as South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In South Africa, power pylon sabotage and metal theft are a big problem. Power pylons are full of valuable metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eskom finds evidence of sabotage at Lethabo Power Station \u2013 pylon supports were cut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Cowan<\/p>\n\n\n\n