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The wind and solar industries\u2019 so-called \u2018social licence\u2019 evaporated, years ago. Now, rural communities are on the war path. These days, they\u2019re better armed and better equipped to take on rent-seeking carpetbaggers who couldn\u2019t care less about destroying their peaceful and prosperous communities. Thanks to sites like this one, community defenders can spot the lies and spin miles off. No longer are they prepared to just sit there and suck it up at carefully staged-managed \u2018community information events\u2019 run by wind and solar power outfits (often with the assistance of their political enablers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Stan Moore and Louise Clegg detail below, the growing fury in rural communities and their open hostility to industries that couldn\u2019t care less about those communities, is perfectly justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust deficit? Wind farm fraud a window into the renewables rort<\/strong>
The Australian
Stan Moore and Louise Clegg
5 July 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Gundary Plain, where we live near Goulburn, Lightsource BP says it will build a 400MW solar factory. It is one of two proposed solar developments that would see 3600 acres covered by 1.6 million solar panels, 300 inverter stations and two 330KV substations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When BP arrived in town two years ago it said there would be no impact on property values. Gundary landowners have now obtained valuations from a variety of experts, indicating up to a 36 per cent loss of value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local council and chamber of commerce are opposed to the development because of its location. BP persists with its self-described \u201cgrid-led\u201d proposal, despite the fact it is causing financial distress, mental health episodes and widespread anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our region has long shouldered a substantial burden of the renewable energy push in Australia. To our south, west and north, the ridge lines \u2013 on a stretch of about 200km along the Great Dividing Range \u2013 host nearly a dozen wind factories, which will ultimately host nearly 2000 turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locals have lost track of which offshore entity owns them as they roll through multiple ownerships via bankruptcy or so-called \u201casset recycling\u201d. Local earthworks and engineering firms, fuel and accommodation providers are owed money by a range of renewables developers who have gone belly up. Fatigued by years of what they openly call \u201cwind farm fraud\u201d, some businesses now refuse credit to any wind company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the incursions continue. Land across a 365km, 70m-wide corridor along the proposed HumeLink transmission line is being compulsorily acquired to host mammoth transmission lines through pristine, prized Southern Tablelands properties in some of our best agricultural country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To our south, yet another mammoth wind factory is proposed on the iconic \u201cBrothers\u201d area of the Monaro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, the social licence for these and a great number of similar proposals is virtually non-existent. There are two common threads that run through this issue. First, for two decades no government or developer has been prepared to deal with the question of remediation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country people are gobsmacked that the large-scale renewables sector is not subject to the remediation rules that apply to other land and sea developers in the mining, resources and oil and gas sectors. There has never been an explanation as to why renewables developers are not required to pay upfront for the cost of future remediation as a condition of project approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the outset they should be required to pay into a government-managed trust to ensure abandoned turbines and solar panels do not rot in paddocks and the oceans in decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the scale of the current project \u2013 part of a globally unprecedented renewables rollout \u2013 it should be regarded as a national scandal the taxpayers of the future will be required to clean up what will become vast industrial graveyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, planning rules inevitably prioritise the interests of developers over communities. In our case, the NSW Solar Guidelines employ the same methodology for measuring visual impact on a rural landholding as is employed for an inner-city apartment.<\/a> The impact of the development is measured from a door or a window rather than a garden or paddock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Gundary this permits BP to claim the visual or scenic impacts are, according to the guidelines, merely \u201clow\u201d or \u201cmoderate\u201d when the impact of a 7sqkm solar factory on a many times smaller adjoining lifestyle block is in fact catastrophic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another example is the method for measuring the quantum of appropriate compensation for so-called \u201cneighbour benefits\u201d. It is measured by reference to the size of the development, rather than the actual impact on neighbours. The guidelines propose a 400MW solar factory (such as the Gundary proposal) should distribute $80,000-$120,000 per annum to impacted neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a remote area this might be enough to distribute to a handful of neighbours, yet on the Gundary Plain this permits BP to propose paltry payments to too few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rural people are alive to the fact that the development of large-scale renewables underpins a cumulative transfer of wealth from us to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wealth of many on the Gundary Plain will be transferred to the Sydney-based investment banker and property developer who will host the solar factory \u2013 and to BP itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On BP\u2019s current form, its \u201cnormal\u201d recycling of Australian solar assets will see a sizeable chunk of our wealth end up with the likes of the Beijing Energy Company, to which BP has recently offloaded all of its Australian solar assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historically, rural communities in Australia have embraced progress. But our experience is that governments have never taken seriously the unintended consequences of significant large-scale renewables electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u2013 and the failure to hold the renewables industry to account on many fronts \u2013 has resulted in entrenched integrity problems in the sector. These problems will only be remedied when governments acknowledge and account for (by actually measuring) the economic, environmental and social costs faced by rural landholders who are being forced to host monster transmission lines or live close to major energy installations \u2013 some of which are now literally encroaching on our backyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then the trust deficit between us and the political, financial and media fraternity who continue to shield the large-scale renewables sector from scrutiny will only widen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the bankers, billionaires and trust fund babies \u2013 who stand to benefit from the wild renewables-only experiment \u2013 insist on a guarantee of remediation of our precious rural landscapes in the future, we\u2019ll start to believe they\u2019re genuinely motivated to save the planet.
The Australian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The wind and solar industries\u2019 so-called \u2018social licence\u2019 evaporated, years ago. Now, rural communities are on the war path. 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