Photon Energy (a foreign owned company) are proposing to build a 500 acre, almost 400,000 panel solar power plant on PRIME agricultural land in the middle of the historical, pristine village of Brewongle.
We can have BIG Solar in the RIGHT place. Big Solar in the WRONG place isn't necessary in a country as BIG as Australia. If we place BIG Solarin the RIGHT places ( on marginal land) we protect PRIME agriculturalland and our FOOD SECURITY. 52% of our farmland is now foreign owned!!!
Let us not hand over more PRIME land to BIG Solar. We have aresponsibility to protect it for future generations. We have the same responsibility to pursue renewable energy ( on MARGINAL land ) for our future generations . It is pretty simple . A WIN WIN. One "green" project SHOULD NOT impact another "green" asset.
We need sensible, responsible, informed decision making.
Updates
November 2, 2017
The petition reached 250 signatures today. I am now preparing a formal letter to the local planning department to request an immediate review of the proposed site location.
Reached 250 supporters
November 2, 2017
November 2, 2017
The scale of this response confirms the need for a formal review of the current site selection process. My team is now preparing a briefing document to present to the local planning panel next week.
October 31, 2017
We are approaching 250 signatures which is the threshold required to trigger a formal review by the council planning committee. Please direct your contacts to the link immediately so we can present this verified list to the planning department by the end of the week.
Reached 100 supporters
October 30, 2017
152 Comments
There are many places in our vast country suited to solar, Brewongle is far from one of them, being often covered with fog through winter. Let's use our land wisely for the right purpose.
There are many places in Australia that would be more suitable to place a solar farm, prime agricultural land that produces our food is not one of them. Food security issues are going to become a problem in our future, so it seems nonsensical to be using food producing land for renewable energy.
I am signing this petition not because I don't support solar but because I support the prime argricultural land of Brewongle. I support my home town small rural community and my family as fifth generation farmers.
This agricultural land is the food bowl of the Central West. We need to keep that in perspective and beware of spin from Photon Energy that the land would still be productive for grazing. It wouldn't. There is surely a better, more suitable position for a solar farm. Love solar power, just put it somewhere sensible.
Agricultural land is for agriculture. Move commercial industry such as solar to less productive land. While we are at it let's stop giving hard working taxpayer money away in subsidies to foreign owned companies that don't significantly contribute to local employment and direct profits offshore.
This is prime agricultural land. Why destroy this beautiful agricultural landscape with acres and acres of plastic.
A total disgrace on two areas. Land that is prime agriculture land MUST NOT BE USED. IT must not be owned by an overseas owner.
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Photon Energy (a foreign owned company) are proposing to build a 500 acre, almost 400,000 panel solar power plant on PRIME agricultural land in the middle of the historical, pristine village of Brewongle.
We can have BIG Solar in the RIGHT place. Big Solar in the WRONG place isn't necessary in a country as BIG as Australia. If we place BIG Solarin the RIGHT places ( on marginal land) we protect PRIME agriculturalland and our FOOD SECURITY. 52% of our farmland is now foreign owned!!!
Let us not hand over more PRIME land to BIG Solar. We have aresponsibility to protect it for future generations. We have the same responsibility to pursue renewable energy ( on MARGINAL land ) for our future generations . It is pretty simple . A WIN WIN. One "green" project SHOULD NOT impact another "green" asset.
We need sensible, responsible, informed decision making.
Updates
November 2, 2017
The petition reached 250 signatures today. I am now preparing a formal letter to the local planning department to request an immediate review of the proposed site location.
Reached 250 supporters
November 2, 2017
November 2, 2017
The scale of this response confirms the need for a formal review of the current site selection process. My team is now preparing a briefing document to present to the local planning panel next week.
October 31, 2017
We are approaching 250 signatures which is the threshold required to trigger a formal review by the council planning committee. Please direct your contacts to the link immediately so we can present this verified list to the planning department by the end of the week.
Reached 100 supporters
October 30, 2017
152 Comments
This huge energy factory would be just a couple of thousand metres from our house. It would not be an agricultural development it would be an industrial site with accompanying visual pollution and traffic. I am surprised that rural zoning laws could allow this.
There are many places in our vast country suited to solar, Brewongle is far from one of them, being often covered with fog through winter. Let's use our land wisely for the right purpose.
There are many places in Australia that would be more suitable to place a solar farm, prime agricultural land that produces our food is not one of them. Food security issues are going to become a problem in our future, so it seems nonsensical to be using food producing land for renewable energy.
I am signing this petition not because I don't support solar but because I support the prime argricultural land of Brewongle. I support my home town small rural community and my family as fifth generation farmers.
This agricultural land is the food bowl of the Central West. We need to keep that in perspective and beware of spin from Photon Energy that the land would still be productive for grazing. It wouldn't. There is surely a better, more suitable position for a solar farm. Love solar power, just put it somewhere sensible.
Agricultural land is for agriculture. Move commercial industry such as solar to less productive land. While we are at it let's stop giving hard working taxpayer money away in subsidies to foreign owned companies that don't significantly contribute to local employment and direct profits offshore.
This is prime agricultural land. Why destroy this beautiful agricultural landscape with acres and acres of plastic.
A total disgrace on two areas. Land that is prime agriculture land MUST NOT BE USED. IT must not be owned by an overseas owner.
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This huge energy factory would be just a couple of thousand metres from our house. It would not be an agricultural development it would be an industrial site with accompanying visual pollution and traffic. I am surprised that rural zoning laws could allow this.