Opposition in South Australia to $500 million solar and wind farm

Beetaloo Valley residents to fight against planned $500 million solar and wind farm by Neoen Erin Jones, Regional Reporter, The Advertiser April 17, 2017 SOUTHERN Flinders Ranges residents are vowing to stop a 50-turbine wind farm from ruining the landscape, fearing the project will be fast-tracked because of the state’s energy crisis.

The group of residents at Beetaloo Valley, 20km north of Crystal Brook, are outraged at a proposal by French company, Neoen, to create an “energy park” in their backyard.

The $500 million project would create 150 jobs during construction and include a battery storage facility, solar farm and 50 wind turbines, which would power 145,000 homes with renewable energy.

The turbines have been earmarked for a section of the 1200km Heysen Trail, on the ranges extending north of Crystal Brook to Beetaloo Valley and Colby Hill.

Group spokesman John Birrell feared the State Government would support the project to secure its energy supply network before summer, despite its development plan saying it was an area where “wind farms were not explicitly envisaged”.

“We have the suspicion that they (Neoen) have tapped on their solar and battery projects to push their wind farm,” Mr Birrell said.

“So if the South Australian Government is prepared to back a wind farm here, they should also be prepared to support opening up the Mt Lofty Ranges for similar developments.”

Mr Birrell said they were not against a battery or solar facility but the wind farm straddled two council areas, which had identified the area as being protected for its “natural character and scenic features”…..Neoen http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/beetaloo-valley-residents-to-fight-against-planned-500-million-solar-and-wind-farm-by-neoen/news-story/b6c49f9a42c11f4a7e77ad64d534862f

April 19, 2017 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | South Australia, wind

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The CEO of Engie claims (The Advertiser 22/4/17) that whether you’re in government or private ownership you have to make a profit (“you have to wash your face”) and that private ownership frees up government funds for other projects. Private companies use their profits for further investment but for some inexplicable reason Governments can’t do the same thing ?

He would like us to believe that the closure of Engie’s Hazelwood power station in Victoria had no bearing on the reopening of Engie’s Pelican Point power station because “they’re in different jurisdictions” (“so they’ve got to wash their face economically whatever happens”). Weren’t they both in the same National Electricity Market ?

He claims that Engie’s Pelican Point was edged out of the market by renewable energy, but when it closed Hazelwood then Pelican Point became available to the market – without any decrease in the contribution from renewable energy.

Is it possible that preoccupation with washing his face has something to do with all that mud on it ?

Dennis Matthews

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