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Vital importance of renewable energy to rural Victoria’s future

Renewable energy ‘vital’ to region, The Warrnambool Standard, 21 Mar, 2012  MP Lily A’mbrosio yesterday continued the Opposition’s attack on state government wind farm polices when she visited Warrnambool to gauge the importance of renewable energy projects for the region. She also drove through Hawkesdale for a view of the Macarthur wind farm towers’ construction.

Ms A’mbrosio, the Opposition’s spokeswoman on energy, said government policy could strangle potential jobs growth and force companies to build their projects interstate. “You’ll see a faltering of jobs particularly in regional Victoria,”
she told The Standard. “Energy and Resources Minister O’Brien has been deathly silent in the debate. “I call on him to visit the Great South Coast to see for himself how important for the local economy renewable industry is. “He needs to account for the government’s failure to back renewable energy.”

Ms A’mbrosio said she was “enthralled” by her briefing from city council chief executive Bruce Anson and mayor Cr Jacinta Ermacora about the economic and jobs potential for the region from the renewable energy industry.
Ms A’mbrosio said she would also visit other shires in the next couple of months including Moyne, which has the region’s largest collection of wind farm projects….. http://www.standard.net.au/news/local/news/general/renewable-energy-vital-to-region/2495044.aspx

March 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Victoria