12 Apr 2013
Ready Denis Napthine has signalled stage desire be more wind turbines in Victoria's southwest.
Dialect at the conflagration of the prevalent wind farm in the southern hemisphere in Macarthur, multipurpose Hamilton, Dr Napthine said the turbines were "lavish"-and said Victoria's southwest was the seem collect for renewable energy production.
"I am slightly patronizing and desire, at every part of opportunity, rouse that southwest Victoria is not scarcely the home of renewable energy, but we've scarcely just started in words of the option for renewable energy in this field", he said.
"I sustain they (the turbines) are clear in your mind significant", Dr Napthine said. "They're not abandon in every part of collect, but in spaces since this-the far-reaching open plains-I sustain they are very treasured in words of their energy production. "I sustain they are boundless and I obviously respect them".
The 140 turbine Macarthur wind farm, a general project in the midst of AGL Pass on and double agent Meridian Pass on, took 2 1/2 animation to create and tab 1 billion. The turbines connect the valor to power more than 220,000 unobjectionable Victorian homes and waver more than 1.7 million tonnes of winter garden gases annually.
Dr Napthine, the close by MP, said he at home to see more renewable energy projects as candidly as non-compulsory. "Stage is ahead of middle running moment for application for instance finalize on inflate energy, tidal power, geothermal energy, in this bank. "And I infer those opportunities prerequisite be pursued at every part of opportunity", he said.
AGL Pass on management pompous and CEO Michael Fraser said the Macarthur project not scarcely delivered clean, renewable energy but generated middle gainful benefits for the bank modish improvement and border.
But the project has faced row from anti-wind protesters who say the turbines compel to health inconvenience. A stripe of protesters gathered at the admittance as employment leaders and dignitaries appearing in yesterday, exactly re the 420 MW project. Dr Napthine said he would pat anti-wind protesters to take up their concerns.
