Sky Information contributor Steve Value is predicting the “greatest battle” ever between Australian farmers and the federal government after Labor realised its ambition to have Australia powered by 82 per cent renewables in six years was a “loopy pipe dream”.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned Australia couldn’t obtain its net-zero emissions targets with out extra strong interventions from the federal government.
Mr Chalmers added that dashing up the approvals course of was a key problem to draw extra funding.
Mr Value warned the Treasurer’s feedback ought to have each Australian taxpayer and enterprise “screaming from the rooftops”.
“If you wish to learn between the strains there and you may see what’s coming,” Mr Value stated.
Federal and state Labor governments across the nation are going to grab planning approvals; they are going to trip roughshod over native councils and move legal guidelines that permit inexperienced vitality firms to begin carpet-bombing farmland with photo voltaic panels, wind generators and naturally these terrible transmission towers to squirt these inexperienced energy into the grid.”
Transmission firms in south-west NSW and central Victoria are telling farmers that they need to work with them however, if want be, they are going to get authorized entry to paddocks for generators and photo voltaic farms, Mr Value claimed.