Australia’s green energy dream is sinking with demand for royalties, repairman shortage – Accelerated?
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Is this within budget? Aboriginal Australians have joined farmers in demanding cash payments or royalties for renewable energy installations affecting their land.
‘Don’t make the same mistake’: Traditional Owners’ warning against renewable projects on Aboriginal land
First Nations and Traditional Owners experts argue that the federal government must properly advise and share benefits with Aboriginal people in the process of developing a new green economy.
Published November 20, 2022 at 6:45 am
By Tom CanettiOUTSTANDING
- Indigenous climate activists protested at COP27.
- First Nations people in Australia say they have not been consulted about fossil fuel extraction projects on their land.
- They say this is a mistake Australia cannot make in its renewable energy transition.
Traditional owners and Aboriginal sustainability experts have warned the Australian government not to make the same “mistake” with fossil fuel extraction and must consult with stakeholders. First Nations leaders before developing renewable energy projects on their land.
It comes as indigenous activists from around the planet urge governments to respect the land rights of the First Nations in
Experts say the coal and gas projects, which have received bipartisan support from the Australian government, have been conducted on Aboriginal land without their approval and without a shared benefit equal benefits.
and investment flows into renewable projects, Dr Heidi Norman, who convenes the Center for Indigenous Land and Justice Studies, told SBS News now is “the best opportunity for Australia to rethink about his relationship with the Aboriginal people”.
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A few weeks ago farmers have reached an agreement to be paid $200,000 per kilometer ($320,000 per mile) for green energy grid lines passing through their landon the grounds that the new lines pose a fire risk – fire helicopters refuse access to power lines, for obvious reasons.
Australia is facing a serious skills shortage – there are not enough electricians to drive the green revolution AND serve Australia’s ongoing mining projects.
Above all, Green vegetables have begun to claim energy storage targetsto solve the obvious problems with their green energy revolution.
In all directions, people are asking for cash payments, with clear justification – Aboriginal people, because they don’t want to be exploited without compensation, farmers, to make up for the loss of land use and increase the risk of fire, and trees, to address the obvious need for energy storage to back up unreliable things.
Something tells me Prime Minister Albanese’s green revolution will either incur a huge cost, or die from thousands of cuts.
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