Communication breakdown The Community Engagement Review into the renewable energy sector by the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner found 92 per cent dissatisfaction with how project developers engaged the local community.
It pointed to poor practices in the sector, sparking negative experiences and community pushback.
There is a notable tension between community engagement efforts and the rigid policy frameworks that shape renewable energy development.
It can mean communities are consulted, but their input is sidelined because of policy restrictions and that leads to distrust and perceptions of an unfair or tokenistic process.
Genuine community fears can also be exploited by vested interests and misinformation actors promoting questionable claims to fuel community resistance and backlash.
God we can be a selfish bunch, i think there’d be something to this. Reminds me of a case, i think renew economy covered, where suddenly this farmer was building a house super close to the proposed wind farm, no earlier indications, i think the wind farm project was quite far along in planning.
No real idea, maybe “green fields sites” as they say are cheaper and easier.
It could be something as simple as the industrial parks are privately owned buildings, so its hard to put public infrastructure, or even another businesses product on those roofs.
The reasons for Wind farms being placed where they are blew my mind. Its so obvious when you consider wind blows in different spots throughout the dau.