Victorian Liberal MPs have a choice before them this weekend - will they side with the community and defend renewable energy jobs and drought-proof income for farmers? Or will they put ideology first?

National environment group Friends of the Earth has branded NSW Assistant Health Minister Pru Goward’s comments on wind farms “bizarre.”

A little over a fortnight ago the Daniel Andrews government backed our long-standing campaign to reinstate the Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET).

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.”

Renewable energy is a mainstream election issue in the hotly-contested seat of Macedon.

Hundreds of Macedon residents participated in the People’s

Climate March and want more renewable energy.

Both the Napthine and Abbott governments

have called on the RET to be weakened.

Liberal candidate for the hotly-contested seat of Macedon, Donna Petrovich, has shifted her position on wind energy as a result of a community campaign. The move could signal a shift on wind energy policy from the Napthine government.

A candidates forum held in Melbourne last night saw two Victorian Labor shadow ministers in the hot seat: Lily D’Ambrosio the Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources, and Lisa Neville, Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change.

Shadow energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio (Labor) addresses the packed Portland Forum.