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The Renewable Energy Target is the central plank of national renewable energy policy. The successful scheme is driving the transformation of Australia’s energy sector while creating jobs and investment.

Courtesy of The Weekly Times.

Family First Senator Bob Day has strayed beyond his area of expertise by lending weight to unsubstantiated claims wind energy is linked to adverse health impacts.

Earlier in April, The Weekly Times published an editorial on wind energy that covered the factors surrounding wind farms development, its beneficiaries, and detractors:

As Yes 2 Renewables coordinator, nothing fires me up more than job losses. Too many good people have been retrenched due to the Abbott government’s prolonged attack on the national Renewable Energy Target. People from welders and...

The Abbott government has become more isolated with its attack on renewables.

The town of Morwell shrouded by toxic coal ash and smoke during the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire.

The Australian and Senator John Madigan aren’t even pretending the current senate wind energy inquiry is impartial. Both have referred to the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines as an “inquisition.”

What a vista!… One of Portland’s four wind farms.

As the policking around the Renewable Energy Target continues in Canberra, communities in regional Victoria are standing up for the scheme.