Voice for Cabonne meeting | February 19, 2024 | Central Western Daily
Roughly 110 residents, including several politicians, attended the February 19 Kerrs Creek Wind Farm community meeting in Molong hosted by Voice for Cabonne.
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00:00 - Can we have the statistics, please?
00:02 - Of the wind speed?
00:03 - Yeah, please.
00:04 - Yeah, it's on their website.
00:05 It's, I think they've got now three years of data
00:10 for whatever, however they measure it,
00:14 metres a second or whatever it is.
00:15 - The legislation excludes neighbouring councils
00:19 from benefiting by community funds.
00:23 - Which you guys ticked off on.
00:25 - So anyone in Kibong who's wondering
00:28 why they're excluded and Dubbo's taking all the money,
00:31 he's your man to ask, okay?
00:34 - Both of them.
00:34 - That's the kind of history though.
00:36 - But also, I'm sorry, but--
00:37 - Hands up, hands up, hands up, even now.
00:38 I've got two quotes.
00:40 - We're moving forward.
00:41 - Yeah.
00:42 - We don't want to talk about history.
00:44 - That's fine.
00:45 - We're trying to create history.
00:48 - Yes, but just be careful what he's saying he's saying is.
00:52 You should all be opposing it, or whatever.
00:55 - I'm not opposing it.
00:58 (audience chattering)
01:01 - Last time we were here,
01:05 we made the policy and it was entirely real.
01:08 - And he was in power.
01:09 He was voting for you.
01:10 - Well, I think he came.
01:11 (audience chattering)
01:14 - It's going to be a bit of a rattle if we continue.
01:19 So, Locke's got--
01:19 - Are we having a set up?
01:20 - Hold on, hold on, Locke's got the phone.
01:23 So, hold on, hold on.
01:25 Locke's got the phone.
01:25 So, I'm just going to give him the mic for the moment,
01:27 to talk, and then we can all have a chat each.
01:30 Then, it's just Locke's.
01:31 Locke's got the mic.
01:33 - And you're right, Sam.
01:35 You were the only one, except you're in opposition.
01:39 You guys said it.
01:41 Why didn't you do it properly then?
01:43 You know, it would have made this process far easier,
01:46 if you did your job properly.
01:48 - They don't want anyone to see the amount of projects,
01:52 the amount of land that will be taken up by Wind and Solar.
01:56 So, I've done my own research.
01:59 Currently proposed operating and under construction
02:01 in the CWO, there's 17,000 hectares of solar.
02:05 And 922 wind turbines on over 150,000 hectares of land.
02:11 - I've been an agribanker.
02:13 What he has just articulated is exactly what the banks
02:16 will do, when they revalue your property,
02:18 under the Act, every three years,
02:21 they will put those disradiance across your property,
02:23 and if you're enabling it,
02:25 and that will affect your ability to get capital,
02:27 and the weighting of the capital that you have.
02:29 And the insurance plan is one that I haven't heard
02:32 in my own part of the world,
02:33 and I've got to say, today I'm making a commitment,
02:35 just to one of my staff,
02:37 that I'll be writing an insurance council.
02:39 - After 10 years, why didn't you do anything about it then?
02:41 Why, suddenly you're in opposition,
02:42 now you're railing against the foreign--
02:44 - Because we weren't rushing down this path.
02:46 What we said was technology--
02:47 - We haven't been on this project since 2019,
02:50 you have a fair time--
02:51 - Well, with respect, what we had said,
02:54 is that we wanted all of the above,
02:56 in gas and coal, with carbon capture storage,
02:58 I've got four coal-fired power stations in my electorate.
03:00 - You would be needing a policy
03:02 that would cover you for $1 billion at minimum.
03:04 Your minimum premium on something such as that,
03:08 per annum, would start at $700,000.
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