Farmers who refuse transmission lines could be fined thousands
“The landowners who host the new electrical transmission infrastructure will receive $ 8000 payment in the area of mileage easement area for 25 years indexed to inflation,” he said. “This payment is in addition to the existing compensation arrangements for transmission hosting.
“Authorized civil servants will always work with the landowners before they reach the land – this legislation will prevent inappropriate behaviors from private transmission companies and make Victoria compliance with other vital infrastructures such as NSW and transport and telecommunication.”
Andrew Weidemann at the RuPanyup farm near Horsham in Victoria.
Victoria Alliance Spokesman Andrew Weidemann said that there would be war against VNI and other transmission projects between landowners and authorities, and warn the anarchy as they try to prevent the entry into the property of farmers.
“Essentially there will be a war and people are preparing for it,” he said.
“People are preparing to go to jail for this. I think there will be a little massacre, but it will happen.”
AEMO recently reported that the costs for the VNI West project, which will connect the Western Renewables connection in Victoria and the Energy Connect transmission line in NSW, may rise from $ 3.9 billion to $ 7.6 billion and may rise to $ 11.4 billion.
VNI West is the key to efforts to connect cities in both states to renewable energy zones as aging coal fuel power plants are closed.
The construction cost will be transferred to consumers through energy bills and will create a difficult balancing action for authorities who want to create a more reliable and flexible energy network without increasing financial pressures in household people.
Questioning the science of climate change, Weidemann, “good, productive agricultural land” renewable energy resources to take risks to risk is wrong, he said.
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“We can say that our civil rights were thrown under the bus by the Allan workers ‘government by the Allan workers’ government, so that they can force the transfer to the agricultural land just across Victoria for the next 15 years,” he said.
“And the farmers are rightly retreat because we believe that energy production really needs to approach the place they really need. And the only thing we do is to maintain transmission lines and renewable projects so that we can feed cities.”
Last month, farmers protested the steps of the Victoria Parliament Viccom Stage 2 Reform Invoice He passed the lower house. Rally organizers plan another protest in Ballarat on Friday.
State Opposition leader Brad Battin, if elected in November, the coalition will abolish the legislation, he said.
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The completion of VNI West has been late for two years, pushed to 2030, and raised more pressure on the system because the coal fuel power plant in the Latrobe Valley had to close in 2028.
As this Masthead reported at the beginning of this month, the lack of high -voltage power lines to connect distant wind and solar farms to big cities emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to Australia’s clean energy transition.
Stephanie Bashir, Nexa Consulting Manager, Stephanie Bashir, a former manager in Electrical and Gas Giant Agl, said that the new transmission infrastructure, especially those who do not offer intermediate connections, stopped the energy passage of Victoria and increased costs.
