Wednesday,
8 May 2024
“They are coming”: residents speak out against renewable ‘prospectors’

AROUND October last year Buckland dairy farmer Bruce Lumsden was approached by a representative of a renewable energy company seeking, to his recollection, 10 hectares of land for a battery installation.

He refused the offer and didn’t think much of it until he heard of the Dederang Battery Energy Storage (BESS) proposal.

“When I heard about and read a bit about that development proposed over...

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