Today Ausnet Services has revised the Environmental Effects Statement (EES) submission date for the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project (WVTNP) to enable more time to consult with landholders prior to submitting the EES on the proposed route and complete the field surveys and investigations required.
AEMO’s ISP team will need to go back to the drawing boards and the finalisation of the 2022 ISP will have to be delayed. Perhaps completely new analytical constructs are needed: is not an “optimal development path” a delusion in the context of such rapid technology and policy change?
CHPE is the most powerful project you’ll never see, and it is ready to provide clean energy with the resiliency and environmental safety that New York and the rest of the nation demand.
AusNet Services have today announced the final preferred transmission path for the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project (WVTNP). This announcement should come as a shock to all Victorians as failure to meet the requirements of the EES risks genuine failure of the process.
By working together, with smart thinking and technology, we can engineer resilience, safeguard reliability, reduce carbon emissions, encourage renewable generation investment, create new and exciting jobs and avoid unnecessary impacts on our economy and environment.
A recent media article stated that AusNet Services will pay landholders more than $200,000 to compensate for each high voltage tower it builds on their properties. This has created heated debate around the amount of compensation and need to be discussing this now. Is the offer fact or fiction?
The EES should proportionately document the likely environmental effects of feasible alternatives, particularly where these offer a potential to avoid or minimise adverse environmental effects whilst meeting the objectives of the project. Is there a genuine risk that the EES process won't be in AusNets favour.
An open letter to Australia, published in the The Age & Sydney Morning Herald on 27 October 2021, claims that 'Transmission Delivers a Clean Energy Future'. Lets' dig a little deeper to see if these claims stack up. It's quite possible Transmission Could Deliver a Clean Energy Future!
Why can't we build overhead transmission lines? Reduced CO2 emissions alone should be evidence enough, the material use just rubs salt into the wounds.
It is time to use the best information available by engaging with landholders and communities to inform infrastructure planning and to strive for those solutions that are high performers on energy supply, social, economic and conservation impact.
