Wind farm project to ‘destroy prime agricultural land’

[@southern-samurai]

These windmills are an absolute eyesore and will end up in landfill as chopped up material that doesn’t break down and cannot be recycled. Give me back my cheap brown coal and gas, and stop ruining this country.

[@DJ-yj1vg]

commonly called consumer choice, something which is being taken away one day at a time with Labor

[@rattusfinkus]

I think windmills are awesome, much rather that than the tonnes of radioactive fly ash and the tonnes of carcinogenic flue gases from a coal generator.

[@Tony-lp2nk]

Yes coal powered power stations look wonderful 😂😂😂

[@kermitthehermit9588]

Explain how an open cut coal mine is less of an eyesore than a wind farm?

[@Tony-lp2nk]

@@kermitthehermit9588 are you serious!

[@gunga360]

This is the Greens at there worst

[@darrylweidenhofer]

One day we will dismantle all this rubbish and have a huge rubbish dump. We will then grow food. There is nothing wrong with the planet.

[@jonathoncalabrese2035]

It’s the WEF. Both albo and Dutton both in bed with the dogs. Mass immigration, limit food, limit housing, high bills.. to really separate the poor to rich. Until Australia gets a leader like trump, we are proper screwed

[@robalexander7348]

I Agree Darryl 👍

[@penbee9316]

If the land owner reads the fine print, dismantling and dumping the rubbish is at their expense.

[@robalexander7348]

We will find out when this eventually happens @@penbee9316 😟

[@jonathoncalabrese2035]

It’s the Wef way. High immigration, higher bills. Both parties in bed with Wef. Until we get a politician in power like trump. We are doomed

[@michaelseay9783]

The same people that claim they are for a better environment are destroying the environment with these Tinker toy windmills.

[@edwardkozlowski3813]

Destroying farm Landis absolute lunacy.

[@yasi4877]

China's Kubuqi desert solar/wind farm generates 16GW with a network of 255 more coming to deliver 455GW. Our deserts are just as suitable but instead of building there we destroy farmland and precious coastal mountain environments.

[@TegrityMaster]

Globalist driven agenda,God Save Senator Malcolm Roberts ! Our Country is going to HELL !

[@rhyno1740]

​@@yasi4877China is building more coal fired power stations.

[@yasi4877]

@@rhyno1740 We should be doing the same with coal, gas, nuclear. Twiggy Forrest and the Atlassian kid had a giant desert solar farm planned but couldn't agree how to finance it.

[@thesurfingprospector6345]

It’s the plan by the WEF UN to kill us off

[@David-d4k9k]

Yes. This is Chris Bowen’s green industrial dystopian dream. Soon your landscapes will be obliterated with skyscraper tall windmills. You people who live on the coast with beautiful views, can look forward to your once pristine bays being packed with these monstrosities resulting in your real estate values plummeting.

[@whiskeygamer9402]

Renewable transition Poverty

[@trevthetroll]

Lefties got batteries..sucko rednecks...haha

[@robalexander7348]

These huge windmills are a blight on our landscape, like these ugly things along the Cullerin Range Wind Farm between Goulburn and Gunning, lets stop this madness. " Nuclear Power is the only answer " 👍

[@rattusfinkus]

Australia going to nuclear power is a joke. You are being had, it is a LNP diversion from the fact that they have no net zero or energy policy, they didn't have one when they were in office for 10 years and they don't have one now. Nuclear is not economically feasible and it will take 20 years to build in Australia, what do we do in the meantime? The world nuclear association admits that renewables make nuclear and coal unprofitable by substantially decreasing their capacity factors and thereby increasing LCOEs for baseload generators, recently European nuclear generators were paying to produce power, this is an illustration of this capacity factor degradation in progress. Gencost shows even with transmission and storage renewables are the cheapest, there is no better analysis of the Australian grid. Renewables will be a fraction of the price by the time any nuclear can be built, solar cells reduce in cost by 10% per year and wind and storage costs are also falling. So nuclear built now is competing with tomorrows even cheaper renewables. Sticking with fossil fuels is not an option either. Fossil fuels prices are volatile as we saw with gas and renewables are cheaper in any case. Border adjustment tariffs are coming and if we stick with fossil fuels our exports will be taxed

[@nomyafiftyonefifty8081]

The same at lake George and the Bungendore area as well.

[@robalexander7348]

@@nomyafiftyonefifty8081 Yes, i believe in one area along Lake George there are 55 🙄

[@rogermckinnon5738]

Albo and cronies seriously needs to look at what's happening in Europe, the UK and Ireland. When they and the WEF/UN screwed with the farmer's

[@GEMelleeMaynopenottoday1133]

I agree with you, they need to give our farmer's what they need and want, and let them get on with what they do best, after generations of working on the land. Our farmer's know what they are doing, all of them, so let them do what they do best. Our farmer's are our hero's, they work very hard to feed us and to make a living. Thank you all farmer's for what you do for us and your knowledge of working on the land. This city person thanks you so much. God bless our farmer's. God please help our politicians grow brains, common sense and empathy.

[@muzzleflash1]

These are being built to eliminate all native bird life in the areas they are constructed.

[@blackorchid2180]

The countryside on the drive from my town to my sisters use to be surrounded by fields of Canola, Sunflowers, etc ... now ... wind turbines everywhere ... the sad thing is that the farmers, apparently, were happy to take the money to have these monstrosities put on there land ... and the noise they generate is terrible ... you need noise canceling ear muffs on if you want to stop by the side of the road to let people stretch their legs.

[@wyatthurts1729]

I noticed that down south west Victoria when me and the kids pulled over for a piss and it’s a disturbing/annoying drone too, we drove a bit down the road and people had vertical wind turbines way better! (Compared to the illogical fore mentioned)

[@nomyafiftyonefifty8081]

No big loss over the canola.

[@TegrityMaster]

Another form of domination ,authoritative tactics to get the masses minds angered and weakened ,don’t get mad,get even - Vote Senator Malcolm Roberts.

[@troyb.4101]

I use to work on them! What noise? Planting around the bases of them is viable.

[@whiskeygamer9402]

Net Zero Fake Zero

[@sallycent6598]

Everything is fake about the net zero. 😂😂

[@gregberzinski3996]

They have scared pristine country in France Italy Danube and Rhine seen this recently looks terrible.

[@CliffHenkel]

Let us add - Denmark, Belgium and areas of Scotland and Ireland. Denmark is starting to reverse their strides towards renewables. Germany is debating to reverse the renewable trend.

[@morningflowerB]

Anyone ever look on the ground under those windmills? Nothing but dead birds. They are high maintenance and breakdown continually. They're also expensive in upkeep, repairs and cannot be environmentally disposed of .

[@CliffHenkel]

A factual statement, thank you!

[@morningflowerB]

@@CliffHenkel You're welcome 🙋‍♀️

[@morningflowerB]

You're welcome 🙋‍♀️

[@Rod-rx4go]

Amazing that the so called traditional land owners from the give me tribe are no where to be seen protesting against the damage to the land.

[@stancraigie601]

Nothing about renewables (destructables) makes any sense.

[@arroeducarlion4990]

Not to mention the deforestation plans for both wind and solar. But its good for the environment.....

[@geoffsimns8424]

You don't need food if you have electricity, right?...

[@AlexSmith-gr4hp]

Doesn’t take much to grow bugs. They thrive in the dark anyway

[@CAWN_G]

Leftist get their food from the store. Ask them.

[@rattusfinkus]

Windmills can co exist with farming

[@robharris6874]

@@rattusfinkus What would a fool like you know !!

[@robharris6874]

@@rattusfinkus You don`t back up any of your claims you are that delusional. I do renewables for living I know how electricity works & you don`t even know how to add. I bet you have never been to any these wind & solar farms & actually see all the trouble that they cause. Your just a nobody !!

[@raykoschel625]

Why can't we have a vote of no confidence in Albanese

[@troyb.4101]

Vote all you want, I'll count them.

[@lavenderfields929]

Australian lives and culture matter 🇦🇺

[@mychannel4882]

They want us eating zee bugs🤢 we can live without politicians but we can’t live without farmers

[@jule3480]

City people do not care. I’d love for these unreliable monstrosities built throughout cities, then you’d hear the whining. The Labor party are despicable.

[@FranksHairSalon]

Yeah, how dare they try and save the planet from destruction! They should be ashamed of themselves.

[@marktanska6331]

I agree with the man. But we can also build new efficient coal stations. Destroying our energy system is madness.

[@ivansultanoff6719]

Simply it is enviroment terrorism😢

[@ausbare140]

I like the look of the big wind farms. I have seen wind farms in Vietnam and think they look great.

[@dennisyannoutsos9689]

Imagine this scenario, you have a forest fire where you need planes to go drop water on the fires and they cant fly due to the hazard of these abominations

[@FranksHairSalon]

The windmills fly? WOW! That's definitely an aerial hazard that someone should have thought of. There must be sackings over this!

[@dennisyannoutsos9689]

@@FranksHairSalon You are quite the idiot arent you? You do know that many of these planes have to fly low to be effective and having hazards that tower over the flying levels required creates a massive problem. Even power cables are a problem as many planes fighting fires have been lost this way. Now piss off and go wait in line to charge your EV while you drink your soy milk and eat your vegan diet

[@clydesimpson1462]

Stupid comment. Wind farms are hazardous to aviation, given their low visibility. Wind Farms affect the performance of communication, navigation and surveillance.

[@FranksHairSalon]

@@clydesimpson1462 I love how you guys have to twist yourselves into knots to come up with more and more reasons to oppose new technology YOU don't like.

[@clydesimpson1462]

I don't think anybody is against new technology. What people are against is the wholesale destruction of our pristine country. The destruction of flora and fauna on a scale never witnessed before. The decommissioning of these monstrosities and the forced land acquisitioning of arable farmland, the very soil required to keep food on the table. Chris Bowen is pursuing stone age technology because that is the limit of his education.

[@rayden9014]

always been curious if taking the "energy" from the wind will have huge environmental problems in the future.. wouldn't it get hotter because the flow of air can't cool down the land?

[@KayveePlays]

The... That's not how it works. It's less taking the energy as it is turning a very large wheel that then turns another smaller wheel around a set of magnets generating electricity. I would personally want to go for an environmentally friendly version of the advanced spiral turbines in the water with reefs around their bases and using non toxic materials.

[@FranksHairSalon]

@@KayveePlays Who says there can't be a combination of technology for renewable energy use? Sounds like a great idea.

[@KayveePlays]

@@FranksHairSalon well you'll never satisfy everyone. My above comment was to solve the problems people had with the turbines. If I had to choose a major power source to go for it would 100% be fusion. Even though currently it isn't commercially viable we have achieved enough energy to sustain themselves for a second or two. In about 20 years I'd give it, We'll be able to supplement a very small portion ( around 0.5% of the grid) to fusion another 10-20 years after that and it'll be a quarter of our power generation. With smaller models being created as we go. But for traditional renewables I'd still say improving solar cells. Using plants as blueprints and research points for how they collect their energy.

[@goingriding71]

We need to start a new Party , true blue farmers Party.

[@jjsc4396]

“Destroy agricultural land”. !?!Been to Germany, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland?…..I could go on, and on. Absolutely hyper-ridiculous. Get out of the studio and into the real world.

[@TegrityMaster]

We need to push Senator Malcolm Roberts all the way to the Top. We are loosing Australia, One Nation, has a nice ring to it,wouldn’t you agree ?.

[@trevthetroll]

Yeah, Senator Barking Mad is the go to man for finding Australia..haha

[@paulie1100xx]

Build them in the cities where the greatest power need is. Problem solved

[@grantsapain]

Like Australia doesn't have more than abundance of not prime agricultural land to put the wind "farms" on....

[@clydesimpson1462]

Bowen destroying Australia one wind turbine at a time.

[@troyb.4101]

BS.

[@HULLDUDE666]

They will just cut down 16 million trees like they did in Scotland. (SNP) 🪵🪵🪵

[@troyb.4101]

What trees.

[@ChrisBNisbet]

Wind project destroys agricultural land. Yep, that's the plan.

[@justindawn6357]

Apologies, I voted Labor last election. Not again

[@Tony-lp2nk]

Yeah right😂😂

[@Mass-jab-death-2025]

They are both the same and you are part of the brain washed murder suicide pact that is the two party preferred nightmare we live over and over every 3 years. Wake the hell up.

[@wanderwoman4695]

Props that break do not break down in the soil. Tons of oil seeps out. Cement bades are so deep they will.never go away!!!!; stop this! At all cost.

[@paulslater9061]

They want us back in the stone age

[@daveg1640]

Good on Robert

[@GEMelleeMaynopenottoday1133]

This is absolutely ridiculous. Surely they can build better coal fired electricity facilities with much better filtering systems and better processing systems, created to minimise the emissions into the atmosphere, If we did that, utilising our own coal, and got rid of the wind farms altogether, and put solar panels in the hottest, dryest desolate parts of this great country, and store the solar electricity created in large storage battery facilities around this country. I think that still using coal fired facilities around Australia, and more solar panels, we could have the best of both elements working for us, and forget about Nuclear Power and wind farms for the time being.

[@mikehutchison4892]

The world,my house,need clean renewable energy.Murdoch lies.

[@dominicpelle7841]

Yep lots of farmers are quite happy with the deal... **NFF President David Jochinke said the review was a step in the right direction and presents a real opportunity for the Government to dispel the uncertainty hanging over the heads of farmers.** “This isn’t a NIMBY situation. Farmers support the transition to renewable energy, but they don’t want to see these projects being prioritised over growing food and fibre.

[@paythepiper6283]

A very small percentage, the ones getting the payment, but their neighbours are not.

[@donotcomply665]

You are so full of sh*t

[@johnkillen4161]

Not sure, but he is pretty close to murra warra wind farm . May have a couple on his farm maybe not sure?

[@WeveGotBush]

Ahhhhhh the Lunacy continues.

[@Super_Mario128]

Release the Vikings!

[@rhyno1740]

But apparently it's going to save the planet. It's going to stop global boiling.

[@WilliamCooper-l6f]

This is not correct Sky News. I reside in Texas where we have over 15,000 giant wind turbines and more going up every day. Besides the roads that are built to reach them and their tiny footprint, nothing is lost. We have them, along with thousands of oil wells, literally everywhere; like ranches, farms,in the middle of roads with lanes driving around them. We have them relatively near residential areas and some small towns have their own towers to make them power. Sky news, you guys need to give wind energy a break; especially for a country that has so much unused land. The farmers want the wind turbines to supplement their incomes, as they can either receive a direct sell for the land or a continuous lease payment.

[@FranksHairSalon]

How dare you come on here with your common sense and practical experiences! Sky and the viewers will have NONE of that, thankyou very much!

[@BanFreakLefties]

Talk crap mate

[@FranksHairSalon]

@@BanFreakLefties That's crap mate.

[@trevthetroll]

Lefties got batteries..haha...and panels..no blackouts..sucko rednecks...haha

[@BanFreakLefties]

Bird murderers

[@winstonsmith7801]

The scary thing id the opposition are part of this madness.

[@davefoord1259]

Hows it gonna be when the towers start a bush fire like in sa last week, and butns 1000s of hectares and thd whole wind farm goes up too.

[@wlhgmk]

Curiouser and curiouser. All over the world, wind turbines have such a small physical footprint that agriculture continues just fine under them. As for solar farms of huge extent, some crops have been found to grow better under them. Anyway if you don't like either, campaign to put solar panels on every roof in Australia. And while you are at it, promote every method of energy storage.

[@josa9902]

One caught fire at Redhill south australia. $22 million bill to repair the damage Interestingly nothing said in the media

[@honahwikeepa2115]

If they fail, land owner pays all bills.

[@vincentburrowes9243]

Oberon - Don't Like Wind Energy - do you want a Coal Fired Power station or a Nuclear Power Station or no power at all?

[@troyb.4101]

Farm around them, you need electricity to pump water. I need my NFL, my A/C units, my cold Beer. Shut the hell up and grow some more windmills.

[@SA-nv5tc]

Who needs food my way!🙈

[@ausbare140]

When it comes to nuclear power never under estimate the amount of stupid people in a room.

[@ShannonCeily-g9p]

How come the community does not get a say is it a stand over you can see soulo pennals from the air I thought Australia was all about fighting bush fires 😢.

[@georgepearson5849]

This is something from a sci-fi movie. Again lots of our money being spent for us to buy what's generated. That means we are paying twice. Once to have them built, and again if they manage to produce a product. We are being led around, by the nose, by fools.

[@dominicgalante7501]

STOP THIS RENEWABLE MADNESS THIS IS A SCAM AND WE KNOW IT

[@hmao4466]

Why grow food in Australia when we can import it from China and the handsome boy and his Labor mates can be getting a cut.

[@Mass-jab-death-2025]

Get ready to eat bugs.

[@chopperking007]

Then the panels get dusty

[@rogerthat487]

We're all gunna be made to eat zee bugs so farmland is expendable

[@rossbryan6102]

COME TO KANSAS, WIND FARM CRYBABIES , AND SEE OUR FIELDS OF CROPS AND PASTURES DOING FINE, ALONGSIDE WIND TURBINES!!

[@CliffHenkel]

Has your electricity bills gone up. Do they produce electricity when the wind does not blow. What is your area delivers "peak load power"? Wind turbines 24/7 - not likely?

[@oilsands69]

Bad choice

[@floralcouture3763]

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ a joke..

[@trevthetroll]

Yeah the dame pushing for the construction of more pyramids was most impressive..haha. Yeah head out to Oberon....they got parks...PARKS I tell ya..get an see em before the towers get em all. Easy to find... next stop past Lower Bumfcuk..haha

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

Lets point out the farmers Federation support Labor

[@positivepawpaw7564]

they also support frackers

[@sallycent6598]

They have voted for this, and do you think Albanese and Bowen will listen to them.😂😂😂

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

​@@sallycent6598exactly karma

[@sallycent6598]

@@MeredithBell-v3f I agree.

[@larrylongprong5219]

CSG in the pillaga poisoning the Liverpool plains.

[@trudiramien4284]

Wake up you moron you must watch abc I live their

[@chocolatedog666]

can we use wind turbine blades to stabilize deserts sands in the effort to reclaim the land for trees?

[@rattusfinkus]

NIMBYS, plain and simple

[@patttrick]

Pie Jesu, (×4) Qui tollis peccata mundi, Dona eis requiem. (×2) Agnus Dei, (×4) Qui tollis peccata mundi, Dona eis requiem, (×2) Sempiternam (×2) Requiem. Pious Jesus, Who takes away the sins of the world, Give them rest. Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Give them rest, Everlasting Rest.

[@kermitthehermit9588]

Robert Snoch. Haha 😂

[@tko8218]

Ridiculous! Look at the land space below those wind towers. It's wide open. I'm no environmentalist, but I'm also not blind. Both can co-exist.

[@Leonardo555ZZZ]

So put them in the cities if there is no problem.

[@positivepawpaw7564]

live next to a wind farm, with its toxic materials that wont be recycled, then get back to us.

[@rattusfinkus]

@@positivepawpaw7564 I wouldn't knock back an income to host some windmills on my property, they are just a bunch of NIMBYs

[@tko8218]

I acutally live next to a wind farm. I also have solar panels on my house. I also have a big gas guzzler sports car. I say let the consumer market dictate what we want to buy and use. @@positivepawpaw7564

[@TomJonesisback]

Fracking destroying Australian farm land but you say nothing about that sky news garbage 😁

[@ruzzaruzza]

"Windmills are absolute eyesore." 🤣🤣🤣🤣- How is that different from power lines? How is it different from highways? Do you want to tear down the power lines and highways, just because the are an 'eyesore'? I don't know about this case, but in general, how does a windmill prevent the farmer to farm the land below the tower? You people are funny🤣🤣

[@clydesimpson1462]

Wind turbines have an aerial and land exclusion zone.

[@FranksHairSalon]

Three old white men. And Rita.

[@BanFreakLefties]

Racist and sexist

[@Tony-lp2nk]

Like coal hasn’t been destroying the environment for years! Gives us a break Sky😂😂

[@CliffHenkel]

It has not been destroying the environment! False science and cheery picked timelines. Renewables can only asist and they cannot replace coal & gas. When the useless cheerio and greens get factual, I will accept some of their BS when they add Nuclear Generations to the "combined electricity generation" structure.

[@windsong3wong828]

Australia have lots of land that would benefit from being turned into wind farms. Don’t let greedy companies do otherwise.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

Simplistic and un researched. Suits your green bias.

[@windsong3wong828]

@@paddlesmcbean2366 Duh…….there are loads of semi arid land that can be used for wind farm as they can’t be used for anything else.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

@@windsong3wong828 which is in locations hundreds of miles from.where needed so leading to issues of grid integration and voltage loss and infrastructure cost. Not saying anything about the degridation of the environment or increased maintenance costs. Real world meets fairy greeny fantasies.

[@windsong3wong828]

@@paddlesmcbean2366 Land which cannot be used for agriculture purpose is ideal for wind farm ( especially in semi arid areas ). I don’t see why it should stay unused for anything. It is different if there is a viable commercial use .

[@YTGhostCensorshipCanSuckMe]

No-one talks about the changes to microclimate, you cant just suck out GW of energy (in the form of wind-flow) without making a permanent change to the microclimate balance.

[@jettstream2886]

Yeah just like mining does

[@soarersan1]

What about the 500%increase in mining to deliver all the metals and minerals required to deliver net zero.

[@jettstream2886]

@@soarersan1 yeah what about it

[@soarersan1]

Current coal mining has much less impact, particularly long wall underground mining, minimal impact.

[@jettstream2886]

@@soarersan1 I said mining, not coal mining

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

Robert does Not want Wind Turbines but He wants Other Locations to have Nuclear Reactors. NIMBY. Might Pay to get Andrew Bolt to Explain to Robert how Successful the Dutch have been at Using Wind Energy, For Example :-. The Dutch have been Using Wind Energy for 500 Years. Impressive those Dutch.

[@FranksHairSalon]

But it doesn't work. It will never work. You must be fake news.